{"id":556,"date":"2009-01-30T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/lights-balance-swim\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T18:50:00","slug":"lights-balance-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/30\/lights-balance-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"lights, balance, swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky was glowing last night &#8211; all the reflected light from the snow was making it look like dawn even though it was almost 10:00 when I looked outside.   I was out for only a few minutes to put a bill in the mailbox, but stopped for a moment to appreciate the light and the quiet.  But I was wearing my flip- flops and it quickly got too cold for that.<\/p>\n<p>My room-mate has been going through some issues with his siblings and has been more stressed out than usual.  When I&#8217;m around someone stressed, I find myself getting more calm and quiet.  I guess it&#8217;s a way to find a bit of balance and maybe bring a little perspective to things.   I also tend to get more excited about things when people are down &#8211; and inherently distrustful of hype.  Might be a little zen and if so, that&#8217;s not a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Today I hit the pool and switched over to the crawl and backstroke.  I was only able to do 10 laps and I was exhausted.   No power, no speed.  Just&#8230; a crawl.  Disappointing, but I&#8217;ve been told that this is normal when a new set of muscles are being used.  I suppose that&#8217;s a good thing, but I felt&#8230; slow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping for a quiet weekend &#8211; with a bit of Wii to keep me occupied. <\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s it for now&#8230; later&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-5152618536346288981?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky was glowing last night &#8211; all the reflected light from the snow was making it look like dawn even though it was almost 10:00 when I looked outside. I was out for only a few minutes to put a bill in the mailbox, but stopped for a moment to appreciate the light and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}