{"id":4328,"date":"2020-10-28T16:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2020-10-28T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T23:23:22","slug":"tourist-in-my-own-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2020\/10\/28\/tourist-in-my-own-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist In My Own Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m inside my own mouth, seeing what the dentist sees. I\u2019m awed by the whiteness of my teeth \u2013 their lingual surfaces, anyway. I don\u2019t notice the tongue, any more than a carpet under my feet. The teeth are like panels of marble. But they have labels on them, which seem to be just A4 sheets printed out and laminated, as we might stick up temporarily on an office door. Some of them seem to be self-praise for fillings and crowns: \u201cGreat Job!\u201d and \u201cFabulous!\u201d But there is criticism as well: \u201cLousy cap that she got in Italy in the 1990s.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/caesarc.msu.domains\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Cheryl Caesar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cheryl lived in Paris, Tuscany and Sligo for 25 years; she earned her doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne and taught literature and phonetics. She now teaches writing at Michigan State University. Last year she published over a hundred poems in the U.S., Germany, India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and won third prize in the Singapore Poetry Contest for her poem on global warming. Her chapbook Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era is now available from Amazon and Goodreads. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m inside my own mouth, seeing what the dentist sees. I\u2019m awed by the whiteness of my teeth \u2013 their lingual surfaces, anyway. I don\u2019t notice the tongue, any more than a carpet under my feet. The teeth are like panels of marble. But they have labels on them, which seem to be just A4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9555,8844,2930,9227,9417,78,9556,41,7962,589,9554,9381,2212,6116,9553,9552,2443,3370,9550,9551],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-a4-sheets","tag-cap","tag-carpet","tag-cheryl-caesar","tag-crowns","tag-dentist","tag-fillings","tag-guest-contributor","tag-italy","tag-job","tag-labels","tag-marble","tag-mouth","tag-office-door","tag-panels","tag-surfaces","tag-teeth","tag-tongue","tag-tourist","tag-whiteness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4329,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}