{"id":971,"date":"2014-03-27T14:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/?p=971"},"modified":"2014-03-30T15:33:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T15:33:03","slug":"the-journey-with-braces-is-over-hello-retainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/2014\/03\/the-journey-with-braces-is-over-hello-retainers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey With Braces Is Over! (Hello Retainers.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On St. Patrick&#8217;s Day (March 17, 2014), I finally got my braces off!\u00a0 It actually didn&#8217;t take that long, as the orthodontist used a tool to basically grind the braces off, so they disintegrated.\u00a0 The luck of the Irish was with me because it didn&#8217;t hurt!\u00a0 I got my braces on in August of 2011, so I was happy to get them off.\u00a0 Now I have to wear retainers for about 14 hours a day.\u00a0 The first time putting them on was bad, as I have a bad gag reflex, but it is actually pretty easy to wear and talk with on.\u00a0 The only annoying part is that I have take my retainers out\u00a0 anytime I want to eat, and then brush my teeth, brush my retainers, <em>then <\/em>put them back in!\u00a0 It keeps me from snacking as much (sigh)!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_975\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9502.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\" wp-image-975 \" alt=\"Braces On...\" src=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9502.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9502.jpg 432w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9502-152x300.jpg 152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Braces On&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_976\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-976\" class=\" wp-image-976 \" alt=\"...Braces Off! \" src=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9510.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9510.jpg 864w, https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IMG_9510-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230;Braces Off!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On St. Patrick&#8217;s Day (March 17, 2014), I finally got my braces off!\u00a0 It actually didn&#8217;t take that long, as the orthodontist used a tool to basically grind the braces off, so they disintegrated.\u00a0 The luck of the Irish was with me because it didn&#8217;t hurt!\u00a0 I got my braces on in August of 2011, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[87,85,88,89],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","tag-87","tag-85","tag-braces","tag-retainers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}