{"id":362,"date":"2016-04-13T01:46:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2016-04-13T01:46:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T01:46:51","slug":"the-wordless-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"The Wordless Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that words originate from the left nostril?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve scarcely written in the two months since I had a chunk of my nostril removed. I posted a brief essay about not taking my nose for granted, but other than that, everything I\u2019ve tried to write has seemed dead and lifeless&#8211;like the piece of me that\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n<p>I have excuses. (1) I couldn\u2019t wear glasses for a number of weeks and couldn\u2019t see to write. (2) I slept a lot during my recovery. (3) My brain isn\u2019t getting enough oxygen since I can no longer breathe through my left nostril.<\/p>\n<p>So how do I get my words back?<\/p>\n<p>I was pinning my hopes on nose reconstruction, but that dream got shot to pieces when I saw the plastic surgeon. Transplanting cartilage and then covering it would require complex surgery involving a skin bridge (a Star Trek Klingon-look), with no guarantee the graft would adhere to my nose. In other words, it would give me an opportunity to become even more disfigured. Oh, boy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve shed tears over this, but can\u2019t seem to find words.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if one of my ears could take over\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew that words originate from the left nostril? I\u2019ve scarcely written in the two months since I had a chunk of my nostril removed. I posted a brief essay about not taking my nose for granted, but other than that, everything I\u2019ve tried to write has seemed dead and lifeless&#8211;like the piece of me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}