{"id":81846,"date":"2021-12-08T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=81846"},"modified":"2021-12-08T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T03:13:34","slug":"wednesday-night-popsicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/12\/08\/wednesday-night-popsicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday night &#8211; Popsicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that song &#8220;I can see clearly now&#8221; by Johnny Nash? I&#8217;ve been singing it all day in my head\u2026 This cataract surgery is pretty friggin amazing. I think I can see through walls now.\ufffc<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now cleared to drive at night again which is pretty wonderful\u2026 And the most amazing thing is that I can read again. It may not seem like much but whenever I was confronted with a restaurant menu or a tax form I would kind of go into a panic. I realize I&#8217;ve been trying to fake people out that I could actually still see that stuff for about six months. Literally I could not read. I was able to do OK on a screen because I could make the words big but I printed piece of paper\u2026 Unless it was in large font I couldn&#8217;t read it even with my glasses.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t much of an issue when we were all locked down in Covid\u2026 But as I&#8217;ve started to travel again and had to read customs forms and stuff like that it has been pretty scary. Do I<\/p>\n<p>And all fixed in one our 20 Minute procedure.\u2026 Do I feel like science is wonderful\u2026 Our bodies are wonderful\u2026 Doctors like Julie Larson are wonderful\u2026<\/p>\n<p>By the way\u2026 When I was a kid I used to get the words to that\ufffc Johnny Nash song\ufffc Wrong\ufffc. I always heard it as:\ufffc<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can see clearly now the rain has gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>I can see all the Popsicles in my way\ufffc<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that I can read again. i see that&#8217;s not quite right\u2026 But it still makes me smile\ufffc \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>note all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know that song &#8220;I can see clearly now&#8221; by Johnny Nash? I&#8217;ve been singing it all day in my head\u2026 This cataract surgery is pretty friggin amazing. I think I can see through walls now.\ufffc I&#8217;m now cleared to drive at night again which is pretty wonderful\u2026 And the most amazing thing is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2021\/12\/08\/wednesday-night-popsicles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday night &#8211; Popsicles<\/span> <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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81847,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81846\/revisions\/81847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}