{"id":14513,"date":"2021-04-29T22:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14513"},"modified":"2021-04-29T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T21:36:19","slug":"daily_2296_-_the_plaster_stash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/04\/29\/daily_2296_-_the_plaster_stash\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2296 &#8211; the plaster stash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2296_plasters.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nPlasters are magical. I don&#8217;t know if it is a physical thing or purely psychological, but Adrian tells me that putting a plaster on a scraped finger makes it hurt less. Perhaps the feeling of the plaster itself is distracting, or maybe it&#8217;s because the hurt is no longer exposed to air. Or maybe it&#8217;s just a purely psychological effect. Plastcebo?<\/p>\n<p>When the kids were small, they used to come to me to get the plaster magic. But already many years ago I moved our stash of plasters from the medicine box on the highest shelf to an easily-reachable floor-level spot, so the kids can serve themselves as needed.<\/p>\n<p>I wish they could also learn to notice when they take the last one and note it down on the grocery list. But no. Several times I&#8217;ve needed a plaster (usually because I&#8217;ve cut my finger in the kitchen) only to see that the box is empty. (Still there, not thrown in the bin, despite being empty. Sigh.) Now I&#8217;ve learned to inspect the stores occasionally and stock up in good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plasters are magical. I don&#8217;t know if it is a physical thing or purely psychological, but Adrian tells me that putting a plaster on a scraped finger makes it hurt less. Perhaps the feeling of the plaster itself is distracting, or maybe it&#8217;s because the hurt is no longer exposed to air. Or maybe it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,759,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-life_with_kids","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14515,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14513\/revisions\/14515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}