{"id":1613,"date":"2008-03-30T22:21:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2010-06-10T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T21:22:55","slug":"i-wonder-if-this-thing-still-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1613","title":{"rendered":"I wonder if this thing still works?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The guy who runs our local gym told me to stay away from the main crossfit web site because it&#8217;s a bit frightening. Those guys are a little intense and the gym I go to doesn&#8217;t go as far as a lot of the other crossfit gyms. I mean, there&#8217;s even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/23\/magazine\/23wwln-medium-t.html?_r=3&amp;pagewanted=2&amp;sq=crossfit&amp;st=nyt&amp;scp=1\">New York Times Magazine article<\/a> calling crossfit a cult. I&#8217;m guessing we&#8217;re the exception. Come once a week; the trainers are always happy to see you. Everyone gets along and it&#8217;s fun to see how well you do, not how often you get to see your lunch.<\/p>\n<p>But on the other hand, I have to go to the web site and see how to so a <a href=\"http:\/\/media.crossfit.com\/cf-video\/CrossFit_MuscleUps.wmv\">muscle-up<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the exercises we work up to and I want to keep working towards it.<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, did you expect I did anything today? It&#8217;s March Madness and I watch almost anything when it gets to the playoffs. Baseball, soccer, football (though I watch that the whole season), and probably some other things I can&#8217;t remember. Curling maybe. I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The guy who runs our local gym told me to stay away from the main crossfit web site because it&#8217;s a bit frightening. Those guys are a little intense and the gym I go to doesn&#8217;t go as far as a lot of the other crossfit gyms. I mean, there&#8217;s even a New York Times Magazine article calling crossfit a cult. I&#8217;m guessing we&#8217;re the exception. Come once a week; the trainers are always happy to see you. Everyone gets along and it&#8217;s fun to see how well you do, not how often you get to see your lunch. But on the other hand, I have to go to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=1613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I wonder if this thing still works?<\/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-1613","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\/1613","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=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}