{"id":47,"date":"2013-04-17T18:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-05-10T18:33:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T18:33:47","slug":"hiccups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/hiccups\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiccups."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off from work this evening and it&#8217;s quite odd. Not entirely sure why though. Well, I know why I&#8217;m off, but for it being odd, I don&#8217;t quite know. Probably because it&#8217;s Tuesday. A Tuesday night for that matter. Usually I&#8217;m asleep right now. Dreaming. Well trying to dream. Unless I&#8217;m totally tired and my body can adjust to the weather, then I might be sleeping properly. It&#8217;s tough. I can&#8217;t complain though. Anyway, where was I? Yes, it&#8217;s odd being off on a Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The past couple of nights I had a series of hiccups that were prolonged until utter annoyance. It was terrible. I didn&#8217;t even eat prior to the hiccups. I had them at a particular time for no particular reason. Again, it was terrible. If you haven&#8217;t heard my hiccups, imagine a frog, a frog that smokes, and as it croaks it also has this gnarly sound, perhaps like puppies being beaten by a hammer (I actually don&#8217;t know what that sounds like, but if I do, my hiccups are close enough) incorporate all those sounds together: the smoking frog and a helpless puppy&#8217;s plea, equals my hiccup. Terrible, right? I know! I guess that&#8217;s my story. My pointless story. To clarify, I don&#8217;t smoke.<\/p>\n<p>To add some sort of importance to the story, I was fascinated about hiccups afterwards. Especially my hiccups. My terrible chain-smoking-frog-puppy-killing hiccups &#8212; does this make any sense? I didn&#8217;t think so. I researched the reasons on why I had hiccups. I concluded, from those exact moments I had them, there wasn&#8217;t any reason. I wasn&#8217;t excessively eating, laughing, or drinking any sort of carbonated drinks. I just had them. I had them on separated occasions but during a certain time of the day, which was the evening. The late evening. The nocturnal shift. Was there some sort of literal and metaphorical reason? Literal because I had them, and metaphorical because I might have &#8216;hiccups&#8217; in life. A sudden change in pace. An obstacle. A hurdle. Hindrances. Anything to stop me from my goals. Or was this a sign to things to come? A positive hiccup? A hiccup through, not only in life, but the rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>I was told by friends the myth surrounding hiccups, especially from a random episode, is that someone is thinking about you. That&#8217;s quite ridiculous. It&#8217;s fun to think that way, but in reality, probably nobody is. OK, that got a bit somber. I apologize. In conclusion, if you have a chance to listen to my hiccups, they&#8217;re quite delightful and please don&#8217;t hesitate to give water. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m off from work this evening and it&#8217;s quite odd. Not entirely sure why though. Well, I know why I&#8217;m off, but for it being odd, I don&#8217;t quite know. Probably because it&#8217;s Tuesday. A Tuesday night for that matter. Usually I&#8217;m asleep right now. Dreaming. Well trying to dream. Unless I&#8217;m totally tired and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abayarts.com\/benjaminabaya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}