{"id":234,"date":"2010-03-03T23:01:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:14:23","slug":"the-things-we-swore-we-would-never-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"The Things We Swore We Would Never Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s got them.\u00a0 You look back and think about the time prior to where you said you would never do something.\u00a0 But for whatever reason, you did.<\/p>\n<p>My latest would be training for a marathon.\u00a0 I said that I would never do one, for one or two reasons that no longer matter.\u00a0 But, the planets have aligned and now I am finishing up with the training.<\/p>\n<p>So as a result, I have found myself running for extended periods of time in sub-freezing temps&#8230; with ice and snow on the ground&#8230; at night&#8230; in fog limiting vision to 10 feet.\u00a0 I even took a vacation day to get in an 18-mile training run that I couldn&#8217;t fit into the weekend.\u00a0 What the hell?\u00a0 That&#8217;s what this has come to.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, this particular thing that I swore I would never do will provide results.\u00a0 You can&#8217;t always say that about doing things you swore you would never do.\u00a0 The coin will flip from &#8220;suffering&#8221; to &#8220;accomplishment&#8221; in one three-foot stride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s got them.\u00a0 You look back and think about the time prior to where you said you would never do something.\u00a0 But for whatever reason, you did. My latest would be training for a marathon.\u00a0 I said that I would never do one, for one or two reasons that no longer matter.\u00a0 But, the planets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}