{"id":10807,"date":"2016-01-28T08:14:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10807"},"modified":"2016-01-28T08:14:27","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T13:14:27","slug":"painful-blog-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=10807","title":{"rendered":"Painful Blog Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never like to do this, but from time to time I must.  I will be taking about a two-week break from blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI have seriously re-injured myself. A vertebra is pinching my sciatic nerve.  My left leg is numb.  My back and left hip are very painful.  I am not sleeping very well.  No appetite, either.<\/p>\n<p>This vertebra nerve pinch happened whilst shoveling snow, darn it.  Just one wrong twist and whammo!  My old body can&#8217;t take the abuse like it used to.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, I have a major, major series of very important meetings that I am running for work.  These meetings will be held in another U.S. state.  I must devote 1000% of my time and attention to the success of facilitating and orchestrating all of these meetings.<\/p>\n<p>For all of these reasons, I am taking a break.  When I return in a couple weeks, let&#8217;s hope the sciatic nerve pinch is resolving.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  it&#8217;s hard to admit when you&#8217;re getting old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never like to do this, but from time to time I must. I will be taking about a two-week break from blogging. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}