{"id":880,"date":"2010-07-11T20:38:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T03:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2010-07-12T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T23:23:48","slug":"the-dark-side-of-popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/the-dark-side-of-popcorn\/","title":{"rendered":"The dark side of popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can something as good as popcorn have a dark side? \u00a0I made my fluffy paper lunch bag pop corn Friday night and I guess a hull got stuck up inside my gum. \u00a0I woke up Saturday with swollen and sore gums. \u00a0Flossing didn&#8217;t help and I wonder if it pushed the hull up even farther. This morning I woke up with a headache on the same side and even more pain and swelling. \u00a0I called my dentist&#8217;s office and left a message asking where I could go today for emergency hull extraction. She called back and said I was her second call this weekend for popcorn hulls (who knew?) and told me to rinse with hot salt water and put some Anbesol on it. I also took a Tylenol. It helped a lot, in fact I don&#8217;t know if the hull came out or if I&#8217;m just masking the pain and it&#8217;s still up there. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not big on pain pills because masking the pain doesn&#8217;t solve the problem. \u00a0You have to find the cause and fix that. If I could see it, maybe I could do something but I can&#8217;t see up there in the back. Well, I know this will pass but the bigger issue is what will this trauma do to my popcorn-enjoying experience? \u00a0Will I be overcome by anxiety? Will I hesitate before every crunchy bite? \u00a0Should I chew and floss between each bite? Should I eat it one piece at a time and first remove the hull? I LOVE popcorn. \u00a0Will life ever be the same?\u00a0Will I have to snack on pudding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can something as good as popcorn have a dark side? \u00a0I made my fluffy paper lunch bag pop corn Friday night and I guess a hull got stuck up inside my gum. \u00a0I woke up Saturday with swollen and sore gums. \u00a0Flossing didn&#8217;t help and I wonder if it pushed the hull up even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}