{"id":73912,"date":"2025-03-31T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=73912"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:10:22","slug":"are-my-braids-doing-more-harm-than-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/31\/are-my-braids-doing-more-harm-than-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Are my braids doing more harm than good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/7195\/live\/d7e61660-0bd7-11f0-ac9f-c37d6fd89579.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi braiding Ifeanyi's hair\" width=\"693\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Braids are one of the most popular hairstyles for black women, worn by celebrities and aunties alike &#8211; but questions are being raised about its effects on our health.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3vw4d0k7r0o\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Braids are one of the most popular hairstyles for black women, worn by celebrities and aunties alike &#8211; but questions are being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/braids.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73913,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73912\/revisions\/73913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}