{"id":2513,"date":"2009-02-21T00:06:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2009-02-21T00:06:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T08:06:36","slug":"this-is-the-old-persons-blog-where-i-talk-about-my-ailments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2513","title":{"rendered":"This is the old person&#8217;s blog where I talk about my ailments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My lumbago!<\/p>\n<p>So while my nose is clearing steadily, I somehow had a weird stomachache last night that was probably caused by taking vitamins, Advil, and Claritin at nearly the same time. Or it could be something different, because I ended up with some intestinal upset that my sister said she also had this week. There&#8217;s all sorts of things going around, so I&#8217;m not surprised. This all hit this afternoon and wasn&#8217;t clearing up when I was supposed to be at  the gym deadlifting. I didn&#8217;t think this particular brand of intestinal discomfort would mix well with that sort of weightlifting.<\/p>\n<p>In my weakened state (again) I was able to finally finish <b>Bridge of Sighs<\/b> by Richard Russo. I&#8217;ve decided I liked it, but it was long and not nearly as amusing as his earlier books. I suppose <b>Straight Man<\/b> was kind of meandering a bit as well, but not to the extent of this book. Now I can get back to reading about awful murderers and the cops who catch them. I  have at least three books my sister lent me and it&#8217;s time to get back at them if, of course, I don&#8217;t get stuck catching up on TV shows from the past week. Apparently I still need a life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My lumbago! So while my nose is clearing steadily, I somehow had a weird stomachache last night that was probably caused by taking vitamins, Advil, and Claritin at nearly the same time. Or it could be something different, because I ended up with some intestinal upset that my sister said she also had this week. There&#8217;s all sorts of things going around, so I&#8217;m not surprised. This all hit this afternoon and wasn&#8217;t clearing up when I was supposed to be at the gym deadlifting. I didn&#8217;t think this particular brand of intestinal discomfort would mix well with that sort of weightlifting. In my weakened state (again) I was able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2513\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is the old person&#8217;s blog where I talk about my ailments.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","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\/2513","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}