{"id":825,"date":"2004-05-24T21:47:45","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/05\/24\/this-is-pretty-gross\/"},"modified":"2004-05-24T21:47:45","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T02:47:45","slug":"this-is-pretty-gross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/05\/24\/this-is-pretty-gross\/","title":{"rendered":"This is pretty gross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I was born, my father had surgery for periodontic disease.  They gave him a local anaesthetic, cut his gums open, pulled the flaps up above his teeth, and used metal tools to scrape away the dead tissue underneath before sewing them up again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a six-year veteran of badly administered braces, and I&#8217;ve had five regular teeth pulled plus four badly impacted wisdom molars.  I am no stranger to dental horror, but I really want to avoid the above experience.  Thus it was that yesterday, I began flossing.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me feel old and boring, and when I swish water around in my mouth, it feels like my teeth have shrunk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I was born, my father had surgery for periodontic disease. They gave him a local anaesthetic, cut his gums open, pulled the flaps up above his teeth, and used metal tools to scrape away the dead tissue underneath before sewing them up again. I&#8217;m a six-year veteran of badly administered braces, and I&#8217;ve had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks","category-stress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}