{"id":63,"date":"2011-12-28T08:02:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2011-12-28T08:02:31","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T15:02:31","slug":"nearly-done-with-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Done with Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After completing all the necessary Christmas-related decorating, shopping, travel, and cultural crap, we had only one small thing left to do.  We were to host a small dinner party.  Everything had been timed perfectly, and I was just about ready to serve.  As I pulled the Roast Beast from the oven, I threw out my back.  So I suffered through dinner and after-dinner conversation trying my damnedest to grin through clenched teeth.  On the rare occasion when this happens, I am reminded that old age is going to suck.  Getting into and out of bed (or, for that matter, the car) can take minutes.  I went to work yesterday, but the pain kept me from doing much.  I went for a run after work, hoping it would provide a reprieve from the pain.  It worked.  Of course, after I had stopped running and sat down, the pain returned with a vengeance.  So now I am laying prone on the living room floor, burning off a day of sick leave without enjoying it.  On the plus side, we all survived Christmas without a hitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After completing all the necessary Christmas-related decorating, shopping, travel, and cultural crap, we had only one small thing left to do. We were to host a small dinner party. Everything had been timed perfectly, and I was just about ready to serve. As I pulled the Roast Beast from the oven, I threw out my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.desertscope.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}