{"id":2012,"date":"2025-09-10T20:31:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:31:27","slug":"continuation-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=2012","title":{"rendered":"Continuation.."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I get really nervous during a pelvic exam. Years ago, my sweet old doctor gave me a little trick. He said, <em>\u201cIf you want to distract yourself, just wiggle your toes. Focus on that, and it\u2019ll calm you down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It worked perfectly, and I never forgot it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward a few years \u2014 new city, new doctor. I\u2019m on the exam table, nerves kicking in, so I start wiggling my toes like crazy. Suddenly, the doctor clears his throat and says in a very awkward voice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUm\u2026 are you\u2026 trying to grab me with your feet?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that point, I almost DIED of embarrassment \u2014 my calming trick had officially backfired! \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get really nervous during a pelvic exam. Years ago, my sweet old doctor gave me a little trick. He said, \u201cIf you want to distract yourself,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}