{"id":9783,"date":"2022-05-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2022-05-19T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T13:47:35","slug":"gums-and-then-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9783","title":{"rendered":"Gums, and then some"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I went to the dentist yesterday, and for the first time in, I think, <em>forever<\/em>, the hygienist did not ask how often I floss. Instead, she just congratulated me on my greatly improved dental hygiene practices and thanked me for making her job easier. While I do brush my teeth every day, I have been terrible at flossing for my entire life. So it&#8217;s nice to know that I&#8217;m finally getting it right!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this kind of comes as part of a huge flip of my lifestyle over the last few months. I&#8217;ve finally been making a consistent effort to take care of myself better lately. You know, like an adult should. I&#8217;ve been exercising just about every day, I&#8217;ve been eating better and less, I&#8217;ve gone back to completely cutting out sugary beverages (even diet soda), and I have a decent-looking <em>beard<\/em> now. I suppose that a renewed commitment to keeping my gums healthy goes hand-in-hand with all the other self-care practices I&#8217;ve been focused on lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now I just need to start cleaning my home more than twice a year, and I might actually be able to pass as a respectable grown-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the dentist yesterday, and for the first time in, I think, forever, the hygienist did not ask how often I floss. Instead, she just congratulated me on my greatly improved dental hygiene practices and thanked me for making her job easier. While I do brush my teeth every day, I have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=9783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gums, and then some<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}