{"id":1917,"date":"2014-12-20T08:46:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T08:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writer-insighter.com\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T09:08:30","slug":"whos-getting-scared-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writer-insighter.com\/whos-getting-scared-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s getting scared now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bwq8Y5z6ckE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Who&#8217;s getting scared now? Tell me?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tell me, how does it feel?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Like a lot of people maybe (Would you? As we used to say? Would you like a lot of people? We were intolerable. But that was then.) I keep trying to get healthy. But it can be scary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I stopped eating meat that had been to a slaughterhouse, because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s right. I stopped drinking milk for the same reason. I eat fruit and fish and vegetables and I don&#8217;t really eat potatoes apart from fish and chips on a Friday and maybe oven chips once in the week, I don&#8217;t eat lard or bacon or processed, manufactured food apart from baked beans, again maybe once a week, and the occasional biscuit, but really not very often at all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But child of my times as I am, I keep thinking it&#8217;s not enough. But nobody told me getting a better diet could be so scary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I remember going to Holland and seeing those odd loos they have in what seem like otherwise perfectly normal people&#8217;s houses, designed so that once you&#8217;ve gone to the bathroom you can inspect your own droppings and admire or otherwise the consistency, colour and presumably the overall presentation. <em>&#8220;Darling, can you come in here a minute? There&#8217;s something I&#8217;d like you to take a look at.<\/em><em>&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sadly, it&#8217;s like a car crash, once you know it&#8217;s going to happen you can&#8217;t not watch. But here&#8217;s a tip. If you&#8217;re going to do that, don&#8217;t drink beetroot juice, the way I have every morning. It&#8217;s healthy, isn&#8217;t it? Full of antioxidants and stuff that combats free radicals, a colonic surge against the Taliban of hostile flora in your small intestine. It&#8217;s also supposed to reduce your blood pressure, but I can assure you it doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It does at first, admittedly. You can feel yourself going light-headed and the blood drain from your face as you think just this once, it can&#8217;t do any harm can it? Just one quick look in the pan? You know, just in case there&#8217;s anything wrong inside? I mean obviously there won&#8217;t be, but better safe than sorry, no? Just a peek. It&#8217;s not as if I&#8217;m going to be selling tickets or anything. Just a quick look.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And then you stagger back from the pan, reaching out to the wall to steady yourself, jaw slack, and the word &#8220;omigodI&#8217;mgoingtodie&#8221; stillborn on your lips before you realise, no, think about it. If that was actually a pan full of blood from your insides you&#8217;d already be dead. It&#8217;s beetroot juice. 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