{"id":5474,"date":"2016-07-30T20:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T01:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5474"},"modified":"2016-07-30T20:33:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T01:33:58","slug":"old-and-fat-and-hot-and-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=5474","title":{"rendered":"Old and fat and hot and slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Wednesday: 4 miles in the early AM; Saturday: 5 miles, about 2 miles of walking]<\/p>\n<p>My running this summer has been pitiful.\u00a0 The Saturday running group, probably the last 3-4 times over there I&#8217;ve mixed running and walking.\u00a0 I start off pretty good, but after a couple of miles I just don&#8217;t have much gumption.<\/p>\n<p>Some of it is the heat and humidity.\u00a0 When I have two trickles from the bill of my cap, usually I&#8217;m not good for much more.<\/p>\n<p>And some of it is just being too fat and getting old.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;ve lost about 5 pounds from my peak, but that isn&#8217;t enough to make me light on my feet.\u00a0 I have a long way to go.\u00a0 Today while I was running I was thinking of that scene in A Christmas Carol where the Ghost of Marley visits Scrooge.\u00a0 He says, &#8220;These are the chains I forged in life!&#8221;\u00a0 And that sums it up pretty well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Wednesday: 4 miles in the early AM; Saturday: 5 miles, about 2 miles of walking] My running this summer has been pitiful.\u00a0 The Saturday running group, probably the last 3-4 times over there I&#8217;ve mixed running and walking.\u00a0 I start off pretty good, but after a couple of miles I just don&#8217;t have much gumption. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mississippi","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5474\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}