{"id":3693,"date":"2011-10-10T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2011-10-11T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T07:01:29","slug":"i-smell-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"I smell&#8230;nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Evidence #1<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;I smell cologne,&#8221; a coworker said as he got his desk.  Everyone else around me agreed and gave all the guys heavy stares.  I sniffed the air and shook my head.  <i>I don&#8217;t smell anything!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Evidence #2<\/b><br \/>\n&#8220;Is there paint?&#8221; someone said approaching me.  I sniffed around me and smelled nothing.  Nothing from the walls, no stickiness protuding.  <i>No&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Evidence #3<\/b><br \/>\nI was excited by the idea of a roast chicken for my dinner, having furiously rubbed in spices, sea salt and freshly grounded pepper.  425\u00c2\u00b0F for an hour.  I settled in my chair, responding to personal emails, aimlessly browsing facebook and scanning my twitter feed.  Then there was the unmistakable squeal from the smoke alarm.  I dashed out my chair, glancing up at the blinking light putting one hand helplessly to my weak right ear.  Then arriving at the oven, I turned it off and opened the door. Only 30 minutes had passed and a little smoke (or was it steam?) billowed out.  The smoke alarm stopped.  I smelled nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Did I lose my sense of smell?  Out of the 5 senses&#8230;is that the one that we don&#8217;t notice when it disappears?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence #1 &#8220;I smell cologne,&#8221; a coworker said as he got his desk. Everyone else around me agreed and gave all the guys heavy stares. I sniffed the air and shook my head. I don&#8217;t smell anything! Evidence #2 &#8220;Is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=3693\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-3693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3693\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}