{"id":1953,"date":"2009-02-23T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2009-02-23T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T16:31:00","slug":"blood-pressure-and-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1953","title":{"rendered":"blood pressure and fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I went to the doctor to get my blood pressure checked after that high reading last week.  It was a good 10 points lower in the doctor&#8217;s office, back out of the OMG HYPERTENSION range.  Clearly I was more &#8220;het up&#8221; about standing up <lj user=illiane> than I thought, and chugging that coffee probably didn&#8217;t help.  We&#8217;re just going to keep an eye on it for now and when I go in for my next physical in a few months we&#8217;ll discuss it again.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fishwatch 2009:<\/i>  Two days ago I changed Kathleen&#8217;s water.  After the change, while I was out of the room, Em got the net and transferred the fish back into her original bowl and scraped off a tiny piece of fin.  The fish seems fine, but I&#8217;ve made it clear now that moving the fish is my job.  It could certainly have been worse.  I&#8217;ll be showing Kathleen a little extra TLC while he recovers.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, Kathleen was very angry, puffing and displaying at me whenever I got near the bowl.  I was very surprised that he would have that kind of a memory.  Kathleen must be some kind of fish genius!<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized that I was wearing a burgundy shirt that was the same color as he was.  I took it off and he calmed down.  Then I held the shirt up to a different part of the bowl and he ignored me and flared his fins toward the shirty intruder.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen thought the shirt was another betta.  Genius my eye.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I went to the doctor to get my blood pressure checked after that high reading last week. It was a good 10 points lower in the doctor&#8217;s office, back out of the OMG HYPERTENSION range. Clearly I was more &#8220;het up&#8221; about standing up than I thought, and chugging that coffee probably didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,78,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}