{"id":661,"date":"2012-06-04T22:52:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ddixon.me\/?p=661"},"modified":"2012-06-04T22:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:52:28","slug":"the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/?p=661","title":{"rendered":"The little things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/img_1379.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ddixondotme.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/img_1379.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bottoms up\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-662\" \/><\/a>Yup, that&#8217;s a picture of the pristine waters at Hawaii, and also a great view of my perspective on life. While everyone was splashing around in the water, I was taking a keen interest on the small things. <\/p>\n<p>The little fish were almost see through, and if you stared long enough, you would see a colony of them, or is that a school of them. Interesting that the people who collected words for the first English dictionary associated groups of fish with the house of learning and academics. Don&#8217;t they only have a 3 second memory? And how the hang did someone find that out?<\/p>\n<p>I just love the way the Japanese come up with clever brain games, I like Sudoku a lot. I read somewhere that you need to exercise the brain with mathematical and IQ type games to minimise the incidence of memory loss. I&#8217;ve reduced my sleeping tablet intake to minimise my troubling  memory loss, this has been worrying. Im also doing Sudoku puzzles, to kick start the neurons. Once this works, I&#8217;ll look for my keys again.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrows&#8217; a big day, I find out the next set of lotto numbers that determine whether life has been sweet. I had a shave tonight so that the oncologist would think I&#8217;m half decent, and I&#8217;ve laid out my clothes similarly to someone attending a job interview. I hope I pass!<\/p>\n<p>Good night sweetos almatomichios. More evidence I should have been in the printing industry when the dictionary was being put together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, that&#8217;s a picture of the pristine waters at Hawaii, and also a great view of my perspective on life. While everyone was splashing around in the water, I was taking a keen interest on the small things. The little fish were almost see through, and if you stared long enough, you would see a&#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":[10,32,42,76,81,83],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-to-cancer-and-back","tag-brain-games","tag-gaming","tag-iq-type","tag-sleeping-tablet","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","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=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dixon.one\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}