{"id":352,"date":"2004-12-08T22:05:06","date_gmt":"2004-12-09T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?p=352"},"modified":"2004-12-08T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2004-12-09T06:10:22","slug":"my-arms-are-about-to-fall-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"My arms are about to fall off."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, not going to the gym for a couple of weeks has made me pretty wimpy. Not only that, but I was shamed into trying the StairMaster and climbing an endless set of stairs was pretty unnerving. I almost panicked when I started getting tired after only five minutes! On the plus side, I felt quite tall on that contraption. On the minus side, there was a woman taller than me on the StairMaster to my right so I couldn&#8217;t pretend I was the biggest giant in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>So, the story of how I ended up on the StairMaster is more interesting if I embellish it. It&#8217;s rude to quote someone&#8217;s email without asking her if it&#8217;s OK, so let&#8217;s say that this imaginary person named, say, <em>CAROLYN<\/em> is still talking to me and told me:<\/p>\n<p><q>if you are at the gym to see hotties you will never get in shape. i notice no one else when i am at the gym. i am ALL FOCUS.<\/q><\/p>\n<p>Internally, I was shamed. So to prove to myself I wasn&#8217;t just fooling around, I tried the one apparatus that everyone looks unhappy using: the Stairmaster. Fortunately, I didn&#8217;t fall off the thing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m in shape. It&#8217;s kind of a blobby shape, but it is a shape. (Oh, and even though the imaginary person who we&#8217;ll call <em>CAROLYN<\/em> wouldn&#8217;t notice me at the gym, you know I&#8217;d notice her.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, not going to the gym for a couple of weeks has made me pretty wimpy. Not only that, but I was shamed into trying the StairMaster and climbing an endless set of stairs was pretty unnerving. I almost panicked when I started getting tired after only five minutes! On the plus side, I felt quite tall on that contraption. On the minus side, there was a woman taller than me on the StairMaster to my right so I couldn&#8217;t pretend I was the biggest giant in the gym. So, the story of how I ended up on the StairMaster is more interesting if I embellish it. It&#8217;s rude to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=352\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My arms are about to fall off.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","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\/352","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=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}