{"id":456,"date":"2013-01-03T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=456"},"modified":"2013-01-03T09:10:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:10:26","slug":"bells-palsy-day-156-a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/03\/bells-palsy-day-156-a-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell&#8217;s Palsy: Day 156, a New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019ll be a while until I\u2019m back to 95%. That\u2019s how far I had healed six years ago when I had it on the opposite side of my face. <\/p>\n<p>I have noticed I don\u2019t have to hold the bp side as much when I speak. I require fewer paper napkins when I eat. I\u2019m still sensitive to loud noises and both my hearing and taste are affected. <\/p>\n<p>But having entered 2013, I reflect on other ways this has affected me. I know I must learn to relax \u2013 to not be anxious about taking a vacation. I know I want to smile more often when I\u2019m healed. I want to kiss my wife more often too. <\/p>\n<p>Bell\u2019s Palsy is a strange way to feel vulnerable. I an affected in so many ways and yet I know some day it\u2019ll be but a shadow. But I don\u2019t know when. So, I must continue to find its source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019ll be a while until I\u2019m back to 95%. That\u2019s how far I had healed six years ago when I had it on the opposite side of my face. I have noticed I don\u2019t have to hold the bp side as much when I speak. I require fewer &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bells-palsy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-7m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}