{"id":161,"date":"2003-03-14T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2003-03-14T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2003\/03\/14\/90700562\/"},"modified":"2003-03-14T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2003-03-14T16:31:14","slug":"90700562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/14\/90700562\/","title":{"rendered":"90700562"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brain twitch<\/b><\/p>\n

I am not dyslexic, and as far as I know, I don’t have Tourette syndrome. But sometimes my brain plays weird tricks on me.<\/p>\n

Take this example: my boyfriend has a very good friend named Frank. He also has a very strange cat named Spiff<\/a>. Frank doesn’t look like Spiff at all – in fact, Frank looks like the long lost twin of my ex-husband, but that’s a whole other story. Frank is a tall man with small glasses and a lovely balding head. Spiff has a lot of orange hair, and he loves to walk on the desk or on my boyfriend’s glasses. Frank is a soft-spoken and intelligent family man who is very knowledgeable in the subject of underground Canadian punk music of the seventies and eighties. Spiff is a silly cat who produces sounds that could sometimes be mistaken for punk music, but generally sound like he desperately needs to be fed. Even when his bowl is full.<\/p>\n

For some very odd reason, every time I want to talk about Frank to my boyfriend, the name « Spiff » comes out of my mouth. And every time I want to yell at my boyfriend’s cat, I tell him to « shut up, Frank! ». My boyfriend is patient, but he’s starting to give me weird looks. The cat<\/a> thinks it’s pretty funny.<\/p>\n

Now that I am aware of this strange brain switch, I try to repress it. It makes things even worse.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday, Spi… I mean Frank came over to watch a DVD with us. I managed to spend the whole evening without calling him Spiff once, but my brain was hurting and the morning after, I woke up with a bad head cold.<\/p>\n

I’m starting to really worry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brain twitch I am not dyslexic, and as far as I know, I don’t have Tourette syndrome. But sometimes my brain plays weird tricks on me. Take this example: my boyfriend has a very good friend named Frank. He also has a very strange cat named Spiff. Frank doesn’t look like Spiff at all –… Continue reading 90700562<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}