{"id":15025,"date":"2021-10-28T22:08:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15025"},"modified":"2021-11-03T22:28:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:28:21","slug":"daily_2471_-_teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/10\/28\/daily_2471_-_teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2471 &#8211; teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrid has crooked teeth. She&#8217;s old enough to start fixing them, with adult teeth all in place where needed. (Except for one baby tooth which she&#8217;ll get to keep for life, because there&#8217;s no adult tooth developing underneath it. I had no idea this was a thing, but now I know.)<\/p>\n<p>Her teeth are too many for her jaw and simply can&#8217;t fit, so the first step is to remove some. To me, pulling out teeth feels like a very drastic step, but the orthodontist was very sure and very convincing about this. So today Ingrid had two teeth pulled out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never removed any teeth. All I&#8217;ve seen is dozens of baby teeth &#8211; both my own, decades ago, and now Ingrid&#8217;s and Adrian&#8217;s. Lost baby teeth are just nubs, but Ingrid&#8217;s two teeth have substantial roots. I hadn&#8217;t pictured them as being so long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" id=\"show_bloody\">They&#8217;re a bit bloody so I&#8217;m hiding the image from any squeamish readers. Just click this text to view it.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display:none;\" id=\"bloody\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2471_teeth.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n$(document).ready(function() { $('#show_bloody').click(function() { $('#bloody').toggle(); }); });\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingrid has crooked teeth. She&#8217;s old enough to start fixing them, with adult teeth all in place where needed. (Except for one baby tooth which she&#8217;ll get to keep for life, because there&#8217;s no adult tooth developing underneath it. I had no idea this was a thing, but now I know.) Her teeth are too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-ingrid_johanna","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025","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=15025"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15034,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15025\/revisions\/15034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}