{"id":839,"date":"2005-02-17T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=839"},"modified":"2005-02-17T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T04:08:00","slug":"839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the store where I bought some toothpaste.  Tooooothpaste.  Tooth-paste.  We smear whitish paste on the bristly end of a miniature brush and scrub our teeth with the resultant concoction two, three times a day.  It was momentarily amusing standing there in the store thinking about it.  Ever have those moments when you step back mentally from something you do day-in day-out and think about it from another perspective?  Family dinners are fun to think about.  At a preset time during the day, we all gather together around a wooden platform in a designated chamber of the house for the purpose of placing various nutrients in a particular orifice at the top of our bodies and ingesting them.  Ever think of what a well-intentioned alien would tell his superiors upon reporting back from a reconnaissance mission to Earth?  Probably something similar.  Try explaining something you do routinely without using any of the words that sum up various processes involved in that action (eat, drink, sleep, talk, walk, drive, etc).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a nerd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the store where I bought some toothpaste. Tooooothpaste. Tooth-paste. We smear whitish paste on the bristly end of a miniature brush and scrub our teeth with the resultant concoction two, three times a day. It was momentarily amusing standing there in the store thinking about it. Ever have those moments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}