{"id":2198,"date":"2011-03-21T21:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T01:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2011-03-21T21:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T01:02:31","slug":"truthiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/truthiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Truthiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few lurkers who flat-out refuse to comment on the blog but send me emails about my posts. Today I got an email from a friend, which essentially said, &#8220;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2190\">Toothbrush<\/a>?<\/em>&#8230;I call bullshit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People. Everything I write on here is true. I mean, I exaggerate a bit sometimes if it makes for funny. (My mom emailed me a couple weeks ago and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re too young to be having these <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2110\">bladder problems<\/a>, especially since you&#8217;ve never had a baby! Go get it checked out!&#8221; And I had to tell her that I don&#8217;t <em><\/em> pee my pants on a regular basis.)<\/p>\n<p>(I <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2080\">totally did<\/a> pee my pants that time when I was babysitting though.)<\/p>\n<p>But I was not carrying a dildo in my backpack in that elevator. I will neither confirm nor deny my possession of such objects, but really? I emailed back, &#8220;Why would I have taken a vibrator to my sister&#8217;s house in Boston?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She responded, &#8220;Because you lived in the living room and had no privacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Touch\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>But still. No. It was my Crest SpinBrush. Right hand to Jesus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a few lurkers who flat-out refuse to comment on the blog but send me emails about my posts. Today I got an email from a friend, which essentially said, &#8220;Toothbrush?&#8230;I call bullshit.&#8221; People. Everything I write on here is true. I mean, I exaggerate a bit sometimes if it makes for funny. (My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/truthiness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Truthiness<\/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":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fambly","category-t-m-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}