{"id":767,"date":"2013-08-05T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=767"},"modified":"2013-08-07T20:48:04","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T03:48:04","slug":"inside-michelles-brain-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Inside Michelle&#8217;s brain, episode 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an actual conversation that took place inside of my head. It&#8217;s a scary place. Dark and full of cobwebs. I&#8217;d advise you not to look in there. Once you see it, it can&#8217;t ever be unseen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 21:00 hours, and it&#8217;s hot. About 81 outside, and about 83 inside. As a native Oregonian of the Willamette Valley, I do not take kindly to hot weather. Just now I\u00a0 opened the windows and thought:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Men are really lucky they don&#8217;t have boobs. \u00a0Boobs are sweaty when it&#8217;s this hot out. Ick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;. a few seconds went by&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, but men do have scrotums. That&#8217;s probably worse.\u00a0 I definitely wouldn&#8217;t want to have a scrotum when it&#8217;s this hot.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if scrotums get hotter than boobs.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to check on that later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Still waters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an actual conversation that took place inside of my head. It&#8217;s a scary place. Dark and full of cobwebs. I&#8217;d advise you not to look in there. Once you see it, it can&#8217;t ever be unseen. It&#8217;s 21:00 hours, and it&#8217;s hot. About 81 outside, and about 83 inside. As a native Oregonian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside Michelle&#8217;s brain, episode 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmmm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-cn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":945,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=945","url_meta":{"origin":767,"position":0},"title":"Inside Michelle&#8217;s brain, episode 3","author":"Michelle","date":"August 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We were listening to a French pop song that features some pretty rockin' accordion. 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