{"id":1154,"date":"2011-02-05T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T11:17:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"It Is Pitiful,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>It Is Pitiful,<\/b><\/p>\n<p>how out of shape I am.  <\/p>\n<p>This is being made known to me as I descend and climb my stairs today, as I go down to the basement and up again in an attempt to get all my laundry finished.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m out of breath.  It is that my quad muscles are screaming at me, <\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;NO, Crazy, CRAZY person who so enthusiastically did lunges and wall squats while you were waiting in the deserted hallway for your son&#8217;s doctor.  No!  You don&#8217;t get to do stairs, now. Haven&#8217;t you hurt us enough today?!!&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>You know, I think that my quad muscles have forgotten who I am.<br \/>\nHow could they?<br \/>\nHow could they forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abt.org\/education\/dictionary\/terms\/battement_grand.html\">grand battement<\/a>?<br \/>\nHave they forgotten the high kicks and the split leaps?<\/p>\n<p>I guess that I&#8217;ll have to show them, won&#8217;t I?  Although, not today.  No, today I shall be going up and down the stairs sideways.  Oh, yes.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Saturday, y&#8217;all!  <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It Is Pitiful, how out of shape I am. This is being made known to me as I descend and climb my stairs today, as I go down to the basement and up again in an attempt to get all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}