{"id":29,"date":"2003-03-26T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T21:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2006-06-29T13:58:10","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T17:58:10","slug":"dont-bite-your-tongue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t bite your tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Part 2 of 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So having parts of your tongue cut off to teach you not to bite your tongue seems a bit extreme, but there&#8217;s another learning experience embedded, free of charge!  As you might expect, having stitches in your tongue can be quite painful.  I was on a liquid diet for a few days, since anything bumping the tongue hurt too much.  Talking hurt too.<\/p>\n<p>But what I learned is that even when each word is carved from pain, some are still worth saying!  &#8220;aye uv oo&#8221; (I love you) and &#8220;aaat obb&#8221; (Great Job &#8211; to my daughter who got a hundred on her computer lab work) were well worth the effort.   Think about it, if you could only afford ten words a day, what words would you pick?<\/p>\n<p>So, don&#8217;t bite your tongue.  Share your feelings and thoughts with those around you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of 3 So having parts of your tongue cut off to teach you not to bite your tongue seems a bit extreme, but there&#8217;s another learning experience embedded, free of charge! As you might expect, having stitches in your tongue can be quite painful. I was on a liquid diet for a few &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=29\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t bite your tongue&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-perspectives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}