{"id":222,"date":"2015-04-09T19:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/?p=222"},"modified":"2015-04-09T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T19:29:55","slug":"a-letter-to-my-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"A letter to my Brain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brain:<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to excuse me, I&#8217;ve never anthropomorphized one of my own internal organs before. But lately, I feel like I have some things I want to talk with to you about. You and I have never really gotten along before. I&#8217;ll just call a spade a spade Okay? For a long time, you&#8217;ve done a really crappy job of helping me control my body. You have, don&#8217;t deny it. Do you understand how hard it is to walk with bent knees? and I don&#8217;t like that you make certain body parts shake for no reason whatsoever, or, that you haven&#8217;t let me straiten my arms since I was three, I don&#8217;t think its funny that you won&#8217;t let my legs walk. Or that you sometimes make my wheelchair run into walls, or, you won&#8217;t let me speak coherently, and those two times you made me he have to wear a body cast for two months were entirely unpleasant.<br \/>\n    Nevertheless, I am a big enough person to admit, that I, on occasion, have wronged you. It was wrong for me to stick the glue-stick up my nose when I was three.  I admit that, the teacher stopped me, no harm, no foul.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll get down to it Mr. Brain.  You are a very creative organ, really, I&#8217;m proud of you. Ever since we agreed to try this Writing thing, you have given me at least five different ideas for projects. I&#8217;m grateful. But I do have one request, could you not send me ideas when I am busy working on another idea? It presents me with a loss of focus which, is distracting. We may be able to add to the literary landscape, but only, if we work on one thing at a time. Have we got a deal?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much for your efforts on my behalf.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Erik Parkin <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Brain: You&#8217;ll have to excuse me, I&#8217;ve never anthropomorphized one of my own internal organs before. But lately, I feel like I have some things I want to talk with to you about. You and I have never really gotten along before. I&#8217;ll just call a spade a spade Okay? For a long time, you&#8217;ve done a really crappy job of helping me control my body. You have, don&#8217;t deny it. Do you understand how hard it is to walk with bent knees? and I don&#8217;t like that you make certain body parts shake for no reason whatsoever, or,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}