{"id":18,"date":"2012-07-21T18:56:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T22:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2012-07-21T18:56:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T22:56:31","slug":"deep-pockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Deep Pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scene: Dentist Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As your career progresses, the phrase \u201cdeep pockets\u201d usually has a positive connotation &#8211; meaning something like &#8220;extensive financial wealth or resources.&#8221;\u00a0 Imagine my surprise last Thursday when I learned that having Deep Pockets in the dental world isn\u2019t an asset. Without getting too graphic, the phrase essentially means that your gums are receding as plaque builds up and that impacts your teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the dental hygienist and I started with a lovely conversation about vacations and how our summers were going\u2026once completed, she donned safety glasses and proceeded to empty my deep pockets with the dental equivalent of a jackhammer.\u00a0 Actually, it sounds a bit like the noise I\u2019m hearing as I write this with my chocolate lab in the background groveling on a bone\u2026painful.<\/p>\n<p>I survived the appointment, but along the way was reminded of the great Bill Cosby\u2019s take on Dentists\u2026.make sure to floss daily and Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XBqY6cJD3CE\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XBqY6cJD3CE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene: Dentist Office As your career progresses, the phrase \u201cdeep pockets\u201d usually has a positive connotation &#8211; meaning something like &#8220;extensive financial wealth or resources.&#8221;\u00a0 Imagine my surprise last Thursday when I learned that having Deep Pockets in the dental world isn\u2019t an asset. Without getting too graphic, the phrase essentially means that your gums are receding as plaque builds&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/?p=18\">Read more &raquo;<\/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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Clfm-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wallyword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}