{"id":493,"date":"2003-01-11T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2003-01-11T21:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-493.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"smell-or-lack-thereof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2003\/01\/11\/smell-or-lack-thereof\/","title":{"rendered":"Smell (or lack thereof)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can <em>finally<\/em> breath through my nose again, but my sense of smell still hasn&#8217;t returned.  It&#8217;s only when you lose it that you realize just how much of the sense we think of as &#8220;taste&#8221; is actually smell instead.  Ham and cheese toasties still have a wonderful mouthfeel, though.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of child care, having no sense of smell has an up side and a down side.  The good thing is that changing dirty nappies is so much less unpleasant.  The bad thing is that you can&#8217;t tell when they <em>need<\/em> changing.  Which vastly increases the danger of &#8220;creepers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(A &#8220;creeper&#8221; is a poo that rides up the child&#8217;s butt crack, emerges from the nappy, and keeps on crawling right up the back.  If you&#8217;re lucky, the child will be wearing a shirt, which will catch most of the unpleasantness.  If not, you end up with a brown sticky trail on the floor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can <em>finally<\/em> breath through my nose again, but my sense of smell still hasn&#8217;t returned.  It&#8217;s only when you lose it that you realize just how much of the sense we think of as &#8220;taste&#8221; is actually smell instead.  Ham and cheese toasties still have a wonderful mouthfeel, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}