{"id":1997,"date":"2016-04-26T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddixon.me\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2016-04-26T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T09:00:31","slug":"oooh-i-see-ocd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Oooh I see &#8230; OCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/tall-poppy-syndrome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1998\" src=\"https:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/tall-poppy-syndrome.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"tall-poppy-syndrome\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" \/><\/a>I have been told that I have a mild form of Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour. Frankly I think it\u2019s nothing more than the \u2018tall poppy\u2019 syndrome where untidy people are jealous of us tidy people.<\/p>\n<p>The untidy people just happen to be smarter in that they\u00a0got in first with the name calling, so now we are \u201cOCD\u201d. And, they are, \u2026 well \u2026 \u2018normal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0was hanging the washing out yesterday. While doing so, I could hear the Robot Vacuum Cleaner operating\u00a0inside the house. I guess this was an OCD orgasmic experience, two jobs\u00a0being down at the same time. The clothes were hung precisely\u00a0to maximise drying and to minimise peg wrinkles,\u00a0and I had a worker untethered by the shackles of computer games, actually doing housework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been told that I have a mild form of Obsessive Compulsive Behaviour. Frankly I think it\u2019s nothing more than the \u2018tall poppy\u2019 syndrome where untidy people are jealous of us tidy people. The untidy people just happen to be smarter in that they\u00a0got in first with the name calling, so now we are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-cancer-and-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}