{"id":1876,"date":"2013-06-20T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betsybuchanan.com\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2013-06-20T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T19:56:18","slug":"ditching-the-carbonated-beverages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2013\/06\/20\/ditching-the-carbonated-beverages\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditching the Carbonated Beverages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dentist has just told me that I need to quit drinking sodas or that I will start having serious problems with tooth decay. I&#8217;ve been drinking Pepsi my whole life and that is my beverage of choice in the morning to start my day &#8211; instead of coffee or tea.I am pretty bummed out right now.<\/p>\n<p>I like my morning Pepsi so much that I am a complete grouch if someone drinks the last Pepsi and leaves me without one in the morning when I wake up. The last time that happened I went postal on the whole family and threw such a fit that I can pretty much guarantee that will never happen again. But, just in case, I keep a bottle of Pepsi in my nightstand drawer as a backup.<\/p>\n<p>But now my dentist says that the sugary drinks that I&#8217;ve enjoyed my whole life have been eroding the enamel on my teeth. He says that I am facing root canals in every molar is I don&#8217;t start taking better care of my teeth and also change my diet. That is pretty scary &#8211; I had one root canal already and it was not fun. Plus, root canals cost a whole lot of money that I don&#8217;t want to spend on my teeth if I can help it.<\/p>\n<p>So, regretfully, I am no longer ordering a carbonated beverage with my lunch or dinner. I will be drinking either tea, lemonade or just water. I can&#8217;t stand to drink milk, so that&#8217;s out. But I will not give up my morning Pepsi. I hope that dropping sodas from the rest of my days and nights will be enough sacrifice to put off dealing with root canals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dentist has just told me that I need to quit drinking sodas or that I will start having serious problems with tooth decay. I&#8217;ve been drinking Pepsi my whole life and that is my beverage of choice in the morning to start my day &#8211; instead of coffee or tea.I am pretty bummed out &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2013\/06\/20\/ditching-the-carbonated-beverages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ditching the Carbonated Beverages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[103,107,200,286,299],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-issues","tag-dentist","tag-dinner","tag-lunch","tag-soda","tag-teeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}