{"id":104,"date":"2002-09-01T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-01T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=104"},"modified":"2002-09-01T09:16:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-01T09:16:00","slug":"industrial-lip-piercing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2002-09\/104-industrial-lip-piercing","title":{"rendered":"Industrial Lip Piercing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a <b>lip piercing<\/b> this weekend!<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=+3 COLOR=\"#0033CC\"><b>OUCH!<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t intentional, and there&#8217;s no jewelry in it now or ever will be. It was pierced in an <i>Industrial Accident<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->You see&#8230; I was working on the house, using a stone chisel, pry bar, and sledge hammer to remove the old parging (cement protection at the base of the exposed brick), when a chunk popped loose and flew at me, hitting me in the face. It smashed my lip into my teeth&#151; fortunately there was no dental damage$#151 causing the &#8220;piercing.&#8221; Actually, I don&#8217;t think it really <i>IS<\/i> pierced all the way through, but there&#8217;s a cut on the inside of my lip, a matching cut on the outside of my lip, and it is swollen to visibly noticeable size.<\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=+3 COLOR=\"#0033CC\"><b>OUCH!<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>The incident has confirmed to me that I would never intentionally get a lip piercing! Besides which, if I did get a lip ring, I&#8217;d spend all day playing with it constantly and it would probably get irritated and infected, or would never heal properly in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a lip piercing this weekend! OUCH! It wasn&#8217;t intentional, and there&#8217;s no jewelry in it now or ever will be. It was pierced in an Industrial Accident!<\/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-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}