{"id":330,"date":"2025-08-04T02:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2025-08-04T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T02:31:49","slug":"patients-reveal-the-most-awkward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Patients Reveal the Most Awkward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He: \u201cHoney\u2026 I\u2019m not sure how to say this\u2026 But I accidentally\u2026 stuffed a garlic bulb up there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Me: \u201cUp&nbsp;<em>where<\/em>, exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He (mumbling): \u201cMy butt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I blinked. \u201cYou&nbsp;<em>what?!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, he\u2019d read online that garlic could \u201cboost testosterone and virility.\u201d He was too embarrassed to tell me, so he shoved it in&nbsp;<em>rectally<\/em>\u2014three cloves at a time\u2014for a&nbsp;<em>week.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor said it was the strongest smell he\u2019d ever encountered in 20 years of practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rode home in silence. I didn\u2019t say a word. I just opened all the car windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That night, I bought him a bottle of vitamins and blocked his access to health blogs forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He: \u201cHoney\u2026 I\u2019m not sure how to say this\u2026 But I accidentally\u2026 stuffed a garlic bulb up there.\u201d Me: \u201cUp&nbsp;where, exactly?\u201d He (mumbling): \u201cMy butt.\u201d I blinked&#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-330","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\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/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=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}