{"id":23272,"date":"2024-06-21T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23272"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T22:37:21","slug":"6-21-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23272","title":{"rendered":"6\/21\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I worry sometimes that if I say (or write) something that sounds wishful, then that &#8220;wish&#8221; might be granted to me, but in the most awful way, as if by an Evil Genie. To forestall such an event, I often add caveats to the things I say. You can see it in <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23267\">my post from the other day<\/a>. After writing that I was sick of my job, I clarified that I didn&#8217;t want to lose my job. This is a form of superstition, similar to &#8220;knock on wood,&#8221; and I ought to be above it. But I&#8217;m not.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m still happily reading <em>Watchers<\/em>. It&#8217;s well-written in some respects (great metaphors, beefy verbs, not a lame adverb in sight). But, like so many older books, it has things in it that are cringe-worthy by today&#8217;s standards, as well as things so dated that they&#8217;d hardly make sense to younger readers. Isn&#8217;t it funny how some books can last hundreds of years and others can barely eke out a few decades?<\/li><li>There is a woman who has a piano lesson immediately following my music lesson. She had a mountain-climbing accident a few weeks ago in which she hurt her arm and hand. Last Tuesday was her first time back since the accident, and we chatted briefly as I was on my way out and she on her way in. She&#8217;s bummed because she used to be able to do 100 push-ups per day before the accident, but now she can&#8217;t do a single one. She says she&#8217;s not healing as fast as she used to, and she wonders if it&#8217;s because she&#8217;s over 60. That floored me. I can&#8217;t do a single push-up either, not because I&#8217;m over 60 or because my bones are healing, but because I&#8217;m weak. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve ever been able to do a full-fledged push-up. I&#8217;ve never been able to do more than a handful of the modified ones either. Damn, but she makes me question some of my life choices!<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I worry sometimes that if I say (or write) something that sounds wishful, then that &#8220;wish&#8221; might be granted to me, but in the most awful way, as if by an Evil Genie. To forestall such an event, I often &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23272\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23275,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions\/23275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}