{"id":8935,"date":"2015-01-04T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=8935"},"modified":"2015-05-03T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T00:48:07","slug":"an-imaginary-conversation-about-brains-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8935","title":{"rendered":"an imaginary conversation about brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could just turn my brain off sometimes, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t I what? Wish I could turn your brain off? Definitely. <\/p>\n<p>Why would you turn my brain off? Don&#8217;t you like the way I think?<\/p>\n<p>Is this a trick question?<\/p>\n<p>Does this brain make my butt look big?<\/p>\n<p>Your brain and your butt are both very attractive. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re very  welcome.<\/p>\n<p>So what is it about my brain that you would turn off?<\/p>\n<p>The part that never lets anything slide. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how to respond to that.<\/p>\n<p>You can be pretty relentless sometimes. <\/p>\n<p>I thought you liked that about me. <\/p>\n<p>Mostly I do, but sometimes you can be hard to deal with. <\/p>\n<p>That makes me feel a little like a misbehaving toddler. <\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t misbehave, but sometimes you are overly persistent about things in the same way as a toddler. It is frustrating. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should try not needing to be right all the time. <\/p>\n<p>The thing that really sucks is that you usually are<\/p>\n<p>I know. <\/p>\n<p>Modest&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been right about stuff my whole life. I am not proud of it. It just&#8230;is. <\/p>\n<p>I see. <\/p>\n<p>I will begin working on being less relentless immediately. By going to sleep. <\/p>\n<p>Goodnight, my favorite big brainiac. <\/p>\n<p>Goodnight, you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could just turn my brain off sometimes, don&#8217;t you? Don&#8217;t I what? Wish I could turn your brain off? Definitely. Why would you turn my brain off? Don&#8217;t you like the way I think? Is this a trick question? Does this brain make my butt look big? Your brain and your butt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=8935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">an imaginary conversation about brains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imaginary-conversation","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2k7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3953,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=3953","url_meta":{"origin":8935,"position":0},"title":"Automatic writing?","author":"Michelle","date":"February 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"What goes up must come down Spinning wheel got to go round --Blood, Sweat and Tears\/Spinning Wheel Recently I was trying to describe how my brain works to someone whose brain is apparently much tidier than mine. 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