{"id":21986,"date":"2024-08-19T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T19:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T09:26:01","slug":"health-wellbeing-holy-earwax-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21986","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Holy Earwax, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"317\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7867-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21985\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7867-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7867-1-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Father Jack\u2019s candle-factory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>The Passion of St. Tibulus <\/em>episode of Father Ted, Father Jack\u2019s prodigious production of earwax discombobulates the visiting Cuban Father Hernandez a little (above).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reminded of this scenario today, upon having had a bath. A <em>very<\/em> hot bath. I almost always submerge my head for about three minutes, specifically to soften up any earwax. And then after the bath, I try to &#8211; without bunging them up &#8211; get some of the crud out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today yielded a very impressive blob of wax and ear-hairs, from deep within my right ear. A bit yukky, I s\u2019pose? But at least it shows these ear-douches are working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7863-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21988\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7863-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7863-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7863-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7863-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_7863.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mango and kiwi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had some fabulous fruit at lunch today. Mango and kiwi. Antonio\u2019s influence. Really should eat much more such delicious and healthy stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Passion of St. Tibulus episode of Father Ted, Father Jack\u2019s prodigious production of earwax discombobulates the visiting Cuban Father Hernandez a little (above). I was reminded of this scenario today, upon having had a bath. A very hot bath. I almost always submerge my head for about three minutes, specifically to soften up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=21986\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Holy Earwax, Batman!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-5IC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21990,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/21990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}