{"id":71,"date":"2003-09-25T06:12:35","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T14:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=71"},"modified":"2003-09-25T06:12:35","modified_gmt":"2003-09-25T14:12:35","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2003\/09\/25\/perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diane.   \u00c3\u00acWhat was that blonde joke that Jimmy told us? The one that<br \/>\n             was so funny, about dieting. I might use it with my patients.\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Me.        \u00c3\u00acYeah, what was it. Matt do you remember?\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Matt.      \u00c3\u00acNo.\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Me.        \u00c3\u00acGive me a moment,  I\u00c3\u00adll find it.\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Clickity, clickity,  after maybe fifteen seconds, tops.<\/p>\n<p>Me.      \u00c3\u00acHere it is.\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>A blonde was terribly overweight, so her doctor put her on a diet. I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day. Repeat this procedure for 2 weeks. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The next time I see you, you&#8217;ll have lost at least 5 pounds.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>When the blonde returned, she shocked the doctor. She had lost nearly 20 pounds. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why, that\u00c3\u00ads amazing!&#8221; the doctor said. &#8220;Did you follow my instructions?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The blonde nodded. &#8220;Ill tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead that 3rd day.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From hunger, you mean?&#8221; asked the doctor.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, from all that skipping!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Diane.    \u00c3\u00acThat is the one, but Jimmy\u00c3\u00ads version was much funnier\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Me.       \u00c3\u00ac It was, but what do you think of  yours truly, The Googlemaster?\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Diane.    \u00c3\u00acIncredible.\u00c3\u00ae<\/p>\n<p>Matt.      \u00c3\u00acPathetic\u00c3\u00ae<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Updates:<\/p>\n<p>Two new contributors to the blog, Dan and Ed, are honing their stories.<br \/>\nScheduled publish dates&#8230;.soon.<\/p>\n<p>The BMW flywheel is on it\u00c3\u00ads way to Dublin NH, to a machine shop that specializes in classic BMW restorations.<\/p>\n<p>Matt is going to the LOCOBAZOOKA! &#8216;UNITED WE ROCK!&#8217; festival this Sunday. It\u00c3\u00ads  an all day, open air concert, held at the airport in Fitchburg. <\/p>\n<p>Last night we celebrated Mark and Ginger\u00c3\u00ads twenty-fifth wedding anniversary and then went to Willow Books to see Elinor Lipman read from <i>The Pursuit of Alice Thrift<\/i>. I queued up to have her sign my copy and to tell her how much I liked her writing. Before I finished,  I looked down to see her stroking my arm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane. \u00c3\u00acWhat was that blonde joke that Jimmy told us? The one that was so funny, about dieting. I might use it with my patients.\u00c3\u00ae Me. \u00c3\u00acYeah, what was it. Matt do you remember?\u00c3\u00ae Matt. \u00c3\u00acNo.\u00c3\u00ae Me. \u00c3\u00acGive me a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2003\/09\/25\/perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}