{"id":1493,"date":"2016-05-31T02:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T02:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2016-06-02T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T23:56:08","slug":"how-you-know-youre-a-francher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"How You Know You&#8217;re a Francher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is always going to work with new stories to tell of life on the franch. \u00a0I don\u2019t think his colleagues and students really know what to say most of the time. \u00a0Sometimes they just stare. \u00a0Usually, they laugh. \u00a0And, I\u2019ve said this before, like most people who hear or read our stories, I think it\u2019s more laughing <em>at<\/em> us and not as much\u00a0<em>with<\/em> us. \u00a0One morning a colleague of his was lecturing on ultrasound in the ER, and though I know it\u2019s fascinating that you can see what&#8217;s going on inside\u00a0the human body with just a wand and a lot of gel, dozens of black and white and every shade of grey\u00a0images probably gets pretty boring pretty fast, which is likely why this colleague\u00a0decided his lecture needed some one-of-a-kind franch humor. \u00a0So interspersed among his Grand Rounds slides were a few on life on our franch, as well as videos of my husband \u201cplaying\u201d on\u00a0his\u00a0banjo (that\u2019s a story for another day). \u00a0One of his slides on franching read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><u>You Might be a Francher If\u2026<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You have ever worn pajamas with rubber boots for midnight calf checks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You think that the five gallon bucket is the greatest invention ever made. \u00a0Really, the greatest ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You learned to drive a tractor or feed pickup looooong before you took drivers ed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your idea of neighborhood watch is someone calling you to let you know your bulls are out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your family instantly becomes silent when the weather comes on the news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now that&#8217;s funny, especially because it&#8217;s so true! \u00a0And, I\u2019m glad franch humor helped keep some ER residents and medical students awake during an early morning lecture on ultrasound in the ER. \u00a0And though\u00a0there\u2019s certainly a lot more to being a francher, you\u2019re well on your way to calling yourself one if you\u00a0can say yes to\u00a0all of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband is always going to work with new stories to tell of life on the franch. \u00a0I don\u2019t think his colleagues and students really know what to say most of the time. \u00a0Sometimes they just stare. \u00a0Usually, they laugh. \u00a0And, I\u2019ve said this before, like most people who hear or read our stories, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}