{"id":573883652,"date":"2012-07-30T22:55:39","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T03:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883652"},"modified":"2012-08-01T19:21:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T00:21:28","slug":"in-the-saddle-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/in-the-saddle-again\/","title":{"rendered":"In the saddle again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what I did today?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/july12\/july43.jpg\" alt=\"trainer\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I put my bike on the trainer today. So I turned a cautious wheel for the first time today, three weeks after <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/07\/09\/in-praise-of-bike-helmets\/\">I crashed<\/a> and <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/07\/10\/what-i-hurt-in-my-bike-wreck\/\">broke my collarbone<\/a> and two weeks <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/07\/16\/scalpel-scalpel-the-day-of-surgery\/\">after surgery<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How did you go from hurting to riding,&#8221; my lovely bride asked.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d just gotten so tired of hurting, that I wanted to try something else. So I rolled out the mat. I quietly put the trainer in place. I figured out how to mount the bike more-or-less one-handed. I put the front wheel in the plastic brick and had to really stretch my leg to get over the now-taller bike. <\/p>\n<p>Clip. Clip. Pedal. I stood up and leaned over the handlebars. I could feel my collarbone &#8212; there is only one position I can be in where I don&#8217;t feel it right now &#8212; but it didn&#8217;t hurt. <\/p>\n<p>Best 45 minutes of the day. <\/p>\n<p>Now. If I can only shake this new crick in my neck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess what I did today? I put my bike on the trainer today. So I turned a cautious wheel for the first time today, three weeks after I crashed and broke my collarbone and two weeks after surgery. &#8220;How did you go from hurting to riding,&#8221; my lovely bride asked. I&#8217;d just gotten so tired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,40,28,3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collarbone","category-cycling","category-iphone","category-monday","category-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573883652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883653,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883652\/revisions\/573883653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}