{"id":33938,"date":"2026-04-07T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33938"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:59:49","slug":"my-taste-is-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33938","title":{"rendered":"My taste is coming back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;this is just so damn weird&#8230;after just two days of not having cocktails, my vision is heading back to normal and I have started to taste things again&#8230;just had lunch and I could taste the ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, and even the corn&#8230;not how it used to be but I&#8217;ll really take anything to make it better&#8230;so it looks like my days of cocktails are over if I ever want to be normal again&#8230;and really, I&#8217;m okay with that&#8230;just need to make no cocktails the new normal and I think I can&#8230;and being able to taste again will be great when we head for Italy in September&#8230;the dentist recommended that I get a water pik to work my gums and make them stronger so I ordered one yesterday&#8230;a rechargeable portable one that has lots of attachments and three speeds and that is supposed to be here today&#8230;and that I can pack with me for the trip&#8230;okay, time to read some more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;this is just so damn weird&#8230;after just two days of not having cocktails, my vision is heading back to normal and I have started to taste things again&#8230;just had lunch and I could taste the ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, and even the corn&#8230;not how it used to be but I&#8217;ll really take anything to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33938\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My taste is coming back&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-33938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33939,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33938\/revisions\/33939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}