{"id":651,"date":"2006-06-14T02:43:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-06-09T11:05:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T11:05:30","slug":"a-prick-for-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"A Prick For Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I braved my fears.<\/p>\n<p>I took the test.<\/p>\n<p>I now knew for sure my fate.<\/p>\n<p>I was once at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=364\">high risk of getting diabetes<\/a>. The doctor told me to drink plenty of water, ask for <i>kurang manis<\/i> (less sweetened) drinks, and to come back in a week to check my blood sugar levels again.<\/p>\n<p>I did not come back.<\/p>\n<p>I was scared.<\/p>\n<p>However, I did resolve to reduce my sweet, sweet blood (kinda explains why I attract mosquitoes!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=431\">Original Coca-Cola was my enemy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, a Coca-Cola fan dragged me to a clinic. I did the test. One finger prick. 4.8. In the safe zone. Normal blood sugar levels on an empty stomach.<\/p>\n<p>Normal blood sugar levels.<\/p>\n<p>A prick for freedom!<\/p>\n<p>I felt like a free man. I was normal, without any debilitating health problems!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/tehtarik1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ah, good old friend, the one who has accompanied me many mornings. <b>Teh Tarik<\/b>. Tea with condensed milk.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/tehtarik2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I still think Coca-Cola is too sweet; it feels like drinking liquid sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone up for candy floss, chocolate fondue or lemon cheesecake?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I braved my fears. I took the test. I now knew for sure my fate. I was once at high risk of getting diabetes. The doctor told me to drink plenty of water, ask for kurang manis (less sweetened) drinks, and to come back in a week to check my blood sugar levels again. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/6260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}