{"id":573883696,"date":"2012-08-07T22:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T03:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573883696"},"modified":"2012-08-11T00:46:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T05:46:09","slug":"the-sky-has-a-six-pack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/the-sky-has-a-six-pack\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The sky has a six pack&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping busy. All is grand. Peachy keen, really. I should be doing less. This is my contradiction: I can&#8217;t do much, naturally I want to do more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m learning what to do when, meaning: not that and never. This is a slow trial and error process. I <em>think<\/em> I should be able to do everything I normally do, of course. Need help hauling that cement? Doing a bit of roofing repair? Playing a little tag football? I can&#8217;t do those things yet. (I don&#8217;t know anything about roofing, but give me a few months and I&#8217;ll come help you carry cement bags if you like.) It frustrates me a bit that I can&#8217;t do the basics, like pick up things, or reach.  <\/p>\n<p>This is the other thing I know: don&#8217;t push through the pain barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Easy to say, difficult to do. Three days of medium activity means I&#8217;ve asked too much of a shoulder just three weeks removed from the operating table. That&#8217;s created a cumulative discomfort. Happily, all of the things I&#8217;d complain about are par for the course based on what I&#8217;ve read; I just need to do less. Being hurt does not allow for a lot of exciting blogging.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meantime<\/strong>, I looked out of the windows to the east this evening and saw the neighborhood bathed in a beautiful light. I walked outside to the west and saw this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug12\/aug07.jpg\" alt=\"sunset\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We do have the best sunsets here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping busy. All is grand. Peachy keen, really. I should be doing less. This is my contradiction: I can&#8217;t do much, naturally I want to do more. I&#8217;m learning what to do when, meaning: not that and never. This is a slow trial and error process. I think I should be able to do everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,28,10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573883696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collarbone","category-iphone","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883696","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=573883696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573883698,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573883696\/revisions\/573883698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573883696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573883696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573883696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}