{"id":875,"date":"2009-08-11T21:41:37","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T20:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2010-01-26T22:43:14","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T21:43:14","slug":"no_holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2009\/08\/11\/no_holes\/","title":{"rendered":"No holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nI went to the dentist today, after a longish gap (last time was back in London). Happy news &ndash; for the first time in years I had no cavities!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI have lousy teeth, for some reason. Even though I brush morning and evening, floss frequently, rinse with a fluoride mouth wash, avoid snacking between meals, etc etc, my teeth still decay. Either it&rsquo;s hereditary (my mother&rsquo;s teeth are no better) or perhaps it&rsquo;s due to some nutritional influence during childhood. Whatever the cause, I&rsquo;ve pretty much gotten used to the need for frequent repairs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&rsquo;m barely past 30 and I&rsquo;ve got 13 or 14 fillings on my 20 premolars and molars, so occasionally I worry about what will be left of my teeth by the time I&rsquo;m 50&#8230; I also dream (infrequent) nightmares about losing my teeth. I understand that it&rsquo;s quite a common dream topic and has all sorts of symbolic meanings but for me the literal interpretation is pretty valid, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the dentist today, after a longish gap (last time was back in London). Happy news &ndash; for the first time in years I had no cavities! I have lousy teeth, for some reason. Even though I brush morning and evening, floss frequently, rinse with a fluoride mouth wash, avoid snacking between meals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[164,163],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","tag-dentist","tag-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}