{"id":1044,"date":"2006-10-31T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2006-10-31T00:02:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T07:02:44","slug":"i-feel-like-a-big-fat-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"I feel like a big fat pig."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an exercise thing and I think it was a lot worse when I was running. I felt a lot of guilt when I skipped running and called my sister to be absolved from my crimes. Not that not running was a crime. In any case, I was away on a business trip for a week and the only time I was close to exercising was in the awful Holiday Inn mini-gym, or carrying my bags through an airport. Tomorrow is my usual day at the gym, but it&#8217;s the one day a year I get to hand out candy to a bunch of little terrorists. I have to do it. It&#8217;s yet another compulsion of mine.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I feel guilty about is the garbage can I just put out. It&#8217;s mostly empty. I have a lot of stuff I need to throw away, but I never plan far enough ahead to put aside the things I should be throwing away. And if I put aside things, my father will start picking through them.<\/p>\n<p>And yet another thing I feel guilty about is not doting on my father, but if I tried to do that, he&#8217;d drive me nuts. I mean, it&#8217;s hard enough trying to get him to put on pants. And by put on pants I mean not go around wearing a t-shirt and absolutely nothing below the equator. You&#8217;d think a guy who&#8217;s always cold would want to wear more clothing, but it&#8217;s not the only thing he does that confuses me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an exercise thing and I think it was a lot worse when I was running. I felt a lot of guilt when I skipped running and called my sister to be absolved from my crimes. Not that not running was a crime. In any case, I was away on a business trip for a week and the only time I was close to exercising was in the awful Holiday Inn mini-gym, or carrying my bags through an airport. Tomorrow is my usual day at the gym, but it&#8217;s the one day a year I get to hand out candy to a bunch of little terrorists. I have to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I feel like a big fat pig.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}