{"id":584,"date":"2006-12-03T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/12\/mirror-signal-manoeuvre\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T18:01:00","slug":"mirror-signal-manoeuvre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/12\/mirror-signal-manoeuvre\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been back into hospital recently, checking out that my throat is fixed. They say I&#8217;m ok, in fact; I have to return in six months so that they can tell me again that I&#8217;m still ok. Takes ages to get into the system, but once you are in it, they look after you very well.<\/p>\n<p>While I was there, I had a hearing test. My hearing is quite good, apart from mild tinnitus, which makes me believe I have twin TVs on every room, that high pitched warm-up whine, as a constant background. Not so bad, they said, and no evidence of hearing damage &#8211; just being middle aged. I have a slight dip at 6k and 8k &#8211; the place in the audio spectrum where consonants &#8220;s&#8221; and &#8220;t&#8221; and &#8220;p&#8221; live, the upper vocal range. Female voices in particular, the consultant advised me, I may struggle to hear against background noise.<\/p>\n<p>Now I know why men cease to hear the voices of women when they reach a certain age.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, I had a forty minute wait, so I left the hospital in Grays Inn Road and went for a walk around Kings Cross. I found this huge, cracked mirror, just standing in a street. I wondered how it had come to be broken, and whether the seven years bad luck was <i>extra bad<\/i> when the mirror was this big. I stayed snapping for ten minutes &#8211; out of the 30 or so images, these are my favourites.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/m_street_1.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/m_street_2.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/m_street_3.jpg\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/funk.co.uk\/blogpix\/m_street_4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been back into hospital recently, checking out that my throat is fixed. They say I&#8217;m ok, in fact; I have to return in six months so that they can tell me again that I&#8217;m still ok. Takes ages to get into the system, but once you are in it, they look after you very well. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}