{"id":172,"date":"2008-01-29T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.akaemi.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-01-29T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T20:06:58","slug":"it-tastes-like-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/2008\/01\/29\/it-tastes-like-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"it tastes like burning &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember, as a teenager, having a discussion with a friend out eating kiwis.\u00a0 She said you could eat the skin.\u00a0 I maintained that you couldn&#8217;t &#8211; because, well, eating kiwi fuzz burned.\u00a0 Even if it only touched your lips.\u00a0 She looked at me like I was a freak, and that&#8217;s when it hit me:\u00a0 perhaps I had a kiwi allergy.<\/p>\n<p>But eating just the fruity insides was fine, I convinced myself.\u00a0 Since it didn&#8217;t cause pain.<\/p>\n<p>Having just had a root canal on the left side of my mouth, I had been eating mostly on the right side.\u00a0 The other day at lunch, after eating\u00a0a kiwi,\u00a0I noticed a strange thing:\u00a0 the right side of my mouth was &#8230; sort of &#8230; burning.\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t that bad, and it dawned on me how if my entire mouth was burning, I might not even notice.\u00a0 Like probably every other time in my life that I&#8217;ve eaten a kiwi.<\/p>\n<p>On the allergy severity scale, my kiwi allergy is extremely minor:\u00a0 mild burning for 20 minutes after contact.\u00a0 No hives, no need for an epi-pen to open up my airways.\u00a0 Still, though, I think I might pass on kiwis from here on out, because now I will be distracted by the taste of burning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember, as a teenager, having a discussion with a friend out eating kiwis.\u00a0 She said you could eat the skin.\u00a0 I maintained that you couldn&#8217;t &#8211; because, well, eating kiwi fuzz burned.\u00a0 Even if it only touched your lips.\u00a0 She looked at me like I was a freak, and that&#8217;s when it hit me:\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaemi.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}