{"id":783,"date":"2006-02-16T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T07:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=783"},"modified":"2006-02-16T23:20:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T07:20:31","slug":"cold-or-colder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=783","title":{"rendered":"Cold or colder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s supposed to be 20 degrees or so tonight and possibly windy. I don&#8217;t know if the roofers have gotten here but I&#8217;m thinking the answer is &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think Dave the trainer was distracted today. He had a date later on in the evening and didn&#8217;t seem as focused on his devious tortures. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of balancing exercises, but nothing like this guy at the gym who stands on the Swiss ball while doing dumbell lateral raises. He has incredible concentration; I can&#8217;t even maintain balance on one foot when there are attractive women walking around. Sometimes I even get distracted by my own reflection in the mirror, because I think, &#8220;Who&#8217;s that funny looking guy?&#8221; or &#8220;Are my legs really that big?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I saw my &#8220;dream girl&#8221; at the gym and she snickered at me again. Well, Rule #1 is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t talk to your dream girl.&#8221; Rule #2 is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t talk to your dream girl.&#8221; Rule #3 was, &#8220;No poofters,&#8221; or something, but I think I&#8217;m a little too homophilic to have that rule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s supposed to be 20 degrees or so tonight and possibly windy. I don&#8217;t know if the roofers have gotten here but I&#8217;m thinking the answer is &#8220;No.&#8221; I think Dave the trainer was distracted today. He had a date later on in the evening and didn&#8217;t seem as focused on his devious tortures. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of balancing exercises, but nothing like this guy at the gym who stands on the Swiss ball while doing dumbell lateral raises. He has incredible concentration; I can&#8217;t even maintain balance on one foot when there are attractive women walking around. Sometimes I even get distracted by my own reflection in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=783\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cold or colder.<\/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-783","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\/783","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=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}