{"id":297,"date":"2010-12-31T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-02-06T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T14:24:33","slug":"the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 5th, 2010 I\u00a0was\u00a0diagnosed with a Grade III (aka anaplastic) Oligoastrocytoma in the front left lobe of the region of my brain where my speech, fine motor skills, and the\u00a0emotional &#8220;hot spot&#8221; generally like to\u00a0live and be left alone so they can do thier jobs.\u00a0 For reference, a ping pong ball is approximmately 33.5 cc.\u00a0 So this ill-tempered and\u00a0offensive 27 cc uninvited and unwelcome house guest is about 80% of a ping pong ball.\u00a0 For now. Based on the biopsy results, about 10% of the brain tissue sample they pulled out has a penchant for replicating itself just for fun. I&#8217;ve been focusing my other brain parts to get the evil-doers to consider changing their ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 5th, 2010 I\u00a0was\u00a0diagnosed with a Grade III (aka anaplastic) Oligoastrocytoma in the front left lobe of the region of my brain where my speech, fine motor skills, and the\u00a0emotional &#8220;hot spot&#8221; generally like to\u00a0live and be left alone so they can do thier jobs.\u00a0 For reference, a ping pong ball is approximmately 33.5 [&hellip;]<\/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-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bromee.com\/zen\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}