{"id":16708,"date":"2014-06-25T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16708"},"modified":"2014-06-25T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:24:37","slug":"root-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16708","title":{"rendered":"Root Canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140625-133303-48783571.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140625-133303-48783571.jpg\" alt=\"20140625-133303-48783571.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI loathe the dentist.  I used to be ambivalent about sitting in that chair, but then I had a really bad dentist who shamed (nagged me meanly about brushing- at the time I was only a once-a-day person), bullied me about my dental care (tried to force me into X-rays while pregnant and then acted like I was an idiot for declining to do so) and other unsavory things he did to my husband and kids.  It totally turned me off of going at all!  It&#8217;s silly, I know, but it&#8217;s interesting to note how adversely residual feelings like that can impact me.<br \/>\nAnyhow, after all these years of avoiding the dentist like the plague, I finally developed an issue that turned into a root canal.  I walked into the dentist office totally naive of the process.  I thought it would be like any other dental visit of drill-kill-fill-feel better, but oh no.  It has not been so.  I&#8217;m nauseous, in pain and altogether out of sorts, made worse by feeling overly embarrassed about missing so much time in my Wired for Reading workshop that I&#8217;m attending, for which there was a paid fee to go AND I get paid to be there!  All this money wasted going out and coming in!  It&#8217;s really frustrating!  I&#8217;ve missed an entire day now!  Ack!  Hopefully I can finish out the week strong and stay all day tomorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loathe the dentist. I used to be ambivalent about sitting in that chair, but then I had a really bad dentist who shamed (nagged me meanly about brushing- at the time I was only a once-a-day person), bullied me about my dental care (tried to force me into X-rays while pregnant and then acted &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16708\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-littlejohnt","4":"post-16708","6":"format-standard","7":"category-diary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16709,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions\/16709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}