{"id":7668,"date":"2013-08-06T22:22:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2013-08-06T22:22:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T05:22:38","slug":"the-best-laid-plans-of-mice-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7668","title":{"rendered":"The best laid plans of mice and men&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I\u2019d be posting more regularly again, and by regularly I meant about once a week. Somehow I decided that keeping up reading all the things I have on Feedly and on Twitter (though I have been avoiding Facebook) would give me more time. That wasn\u2019t the case. I\u2019ve also been a lot more tired this summer possibly just because I\u2019M OLD. I should be glad that I\u2019m not one of my friends who is welcoming a baby into the family because, honestly, I just don\u2019t have the energy. I also don\u2019t have the ovaries, so the argument is merely academic at this point.<\/p>\n<p>My grand experiment to stop eating oatmeal at breakfast and to start drinking an awful concoction of whey protein isolate and water continues. It was mainly started to try to lose some body fat and all it seems to be doing is making my wallet lighter. It does seem to keep my appetite down and is easier to eat than the paste-like instant oatmeal that I was \u201cenjoying\u201d previously, but I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s good or bad. I guess maybe it just \u201cis\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I\u2019d be posting more regularly again, and by regularly I meant about once a week. Somehow I decided that keeping up reading all the things I have on Feedly and on Twitter (though I have been avoiding Facebook) would give me more time. That wasn\u2019t the case. I\u2019ve also been a lot more tired this summer possibly just because I\u2019M OLD. I should be glad that I\u2019m not one of my friends who is welcoming a baby into the family because, honestly, I just don\u2019t have the energy. I also don\u2019t have the ovaries, so the argument is merely academic at this point. My grand experiment to stop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7668\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The best laid plans of mice and men&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7668","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\/7668","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=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7669,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions\/7669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}