{"id":22062,"date":"2020-08-26T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/26\/a-thing-of-its-own-the-man-with-five-metre-long-hair-unwashed-for-80-years"},"modified":"2020-08-26T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:09:00","slug":"a-thing-of-its-own-the-man-with-five-metre-long-hair-unwashed-for-80-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22062","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A thing of its own&#8217;: the man with five-metre-long hair, unwashed for 80 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nguyen Van Chien, 92, from Vietnam, believes it was his calling to never cut, wash or comb his hair <\/p>\n<p>While coronavirus lockdowns caused many men across the world to grow their hair longer than usual, none compare with Nguyen Van Chien: the 92-year-old from Vietnam\u2019s southern Mekong Delta region is the proud owner of five-metre-long dreadlocks, which he hasn\u2019t cut, washed or combed for nearly 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe if I cut my hair I will die. I dare not to change anything, not even combing it,\u201d said Chien, who believes in a faith that prescribes leaving untouched what a person is born with.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/26\/a-thing-of-its-own-the-man-with-five-metre-long-hair-unwashed-for-80-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nguyen Van Chien, 92, from Vietnam, believes it was his calling to never cut, wash or comb his hair While coronavirus lockdowns caused many men across the world to grow their hair longer than usual, none compare with Nguyen Van Chien: the 92-year-old f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22063,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22062\/revisions\/22063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}