{"id":1812,"date":"2004-08-31T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2004-08-31T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T15:56:57","slug":"exercise-and-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Exercise and Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing the &#8220;Cough your lungs out&#8221; abdominal workout for the past couple of days, and I can really feel it working.  Pretty soon I&#8217;ll have rock-hard abs and a pair of inverted lungs floating around with me like a pair of grey-pink puffy balloons attached to my mouth.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAnd if that mental image has put you off your lunch, well, that&#8217;s just part of the new diet program that I&#8217;ve started!  I call it the &#8220;Accidentally screw up your schedule so that you&#8217;re working on really unappetizing imagery near lunchtime&#8221; diet.  I&#8217;m debating putting off the poster I&#8217;ve got in until later this afternoon.  I haven&#8217;t looked at any of the 11 or so pictures yet, but when the title contains words like &#8220;Septic Tibial Nonunion&#8221; you can pretty much bet it&#8217;s not going to be all fluffy bunnies and pretty flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I think of it, there&#8217;ve been precious few posters with fluffy bunnies and pretty flowers in my line of work.  Off hand, I can only think of one, and that only counts because they were using a sort of gardening metaphor for the best way to train multidisciplinary nurse practitioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing the &#8220;Cough your lungs out&#8221; abdominal workout for the past couple of days, and I can really feel it working. Pretty soon I&#8217;ll have rock-hard abs and a pair of inverted lungs floating around with me like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}