{"id":24990,"date":"2023-06-01T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/?p=24990"},"modified":"2023-07-10T12:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T06:40:29","slug":"things-other-than-maths-i-tried-doing-and-failed-miserably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/things-other-than-maths-i-tried-doing-and-failed-miserably\/","title":{"rendered":"Things other than maths I tried doing, and failed miserably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buying <em>Fair &amp; Lovely<\/em>, hoping the cream inside the tube would make me fair enough to be liked by my crush in school.<\/p>\n<p>Fixing my teeth only to regret, years later, the twelve thousand I spent to look like someone I will never be.<\/p>\n<p>Waxing my body for the first time last year to have silky skin like the women on <em>Veet<\/em>\u2019s box but ended up with rashes instead.<\/p>\n<p>Doing my eyebrows only to realise Frida was the most beautiful woman who ever lived on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Moving my jaws like a camel chewing the cud, only to drop the exercise because it was exhausting.<\/p>\n<p>Wearing only black and navy blue clothes to be mortified in pink and yellow now.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Failure. Like with decimals and fractions.<\/p>\n<p>My body, now, is a temple<br>\nand I am an atheist.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:12px\"><em>Cover Image: Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jessbaileydesigns?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Jess Bailey<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/qbo7DPBvnV0?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waxing my body for the first time last year to have silky skin like the women on Veet\u2019s box but ended up with rashes instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":24998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4179,1,3401],"tags":[134,1628,22,503,3197,4099,99,25,4191,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-24990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-body-and-sexuality-2","8":"category-categories","9":"category-fiction-poetry","10":"tag-beauty","11":"tag-beauty-standards","12":"tag-body","13":"tag-body-image","14":"tag-expectations","15":"tag-fairness","16":"tag-relationships","17":"tag-sexualities","18":"tag-unrealistic-ideals","19":"tag-young-people"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25299,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24990\/revisions\/25299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}