{"id":391,"date":"2004-02-01T13:24:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2022-10-09T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T17:13:29","slug":"in-praise-of-my-friend-ruben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Stone On the Mound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Sharon Stone threw out the first pitch on Opening Day.<\/p>\n<p>She looked absolutely stunning.  Her hair was short and scruffy, she wore a sleeveless white dress, a cross around her neck, white pumps, and a big black baseball mitt.<\/p>\n<p>I fell in love with her haircut, and decided I needed to get all my hair chopped off.<\/p>\n<p>But by the time I made the decision to do so, I could not find any of the photos online anymore.  For a couple of weeks they were everywhere, and then the moment passed, and I even looked on her fan websites, looking for the image &#8211; to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>I mentioned to my friend Ruben at the time- &#8220;Can you track it down?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s an IMMEDIATE kind of guy.  A year and a half ago, I mentioned to him (in an IM conversation) that I had a date that night, and I needed to go shopping for &#8220;girlie shoes.&#8221;  Within literally 3 minutes, he bombarded me with link after link after link, of cool-looking shoes.  He does things right away.<\/p>\n<p>So within an hour, he IMd me back and said, &#8220;Looks like Yahoo took it off its server &#8230; You might want to keep track of the fan sites in the next couple of weeks &#8211; It&#8217;ll probably show up there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Life went on.  I forgot about Sharon Stone&#8217;s gorgeous haircut.  The summer began.  The summer passed. The autumn began.  The autumn passed.  The winter began.  And kept going.<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, I get an email from Ruben, with the very photo I had been looking for attached.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/sharon__39368125_stone_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/sharon__39368125_stone_300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/sharon__39368125_stone_300-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/sharon__39368125_stone_300-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nHe and I literally had not discussed that photo since opening day last year.<\/p>\n<p>But he saw it &#8211; and remembered.<\/p>\n<p>I want to get my hair cut this week &#8211; but I&#8217;m starting rehearsals for a new show in a couple days.  I&#8217;m going to see a play with the director this week (otherwise known as my high school boyfriend) &#8211; so I&#8217;ll check with him if it&#8217;s okay if I have shorter hair for the part.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m ready for a transformation.  A shedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Sharon Stone threw out the first pitch on Opening Day. She looked absolutely stunning. Her hair was short and scruffy, she wore a sleeveless white dress, a cross around her neck, white pumps, and a big black baseball &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=391\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[2401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177921,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/177921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}