{"id":16634,"date":"2012-10-02T21:55:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T03:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2016-04-30T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:36:43","slug":"mr-in-between-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16634","title":{"rendered":"Mr. In Between"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Harvest Moon<\/p>\n<p>This hanging in between, between the trauma of the operation and a recovered back to normal state, has begun to wear on me. \u00a0Already. \u00a0I&#8217;ve forced myself, as I said below, to go slow, rest. \u00a0Now that the pain has almost totally subsided, that&#8217;s not so easy. \u00a0When there was an ouch or two or more to deal with, I reached into the reserve we all carry for those things and pushed through it.<\/p>\n<p>(former web page vanished)<\/p>\n<p>In the time while I&#8217;m still vulnerable to undoing the repair that has been done and beyond the pain, this time, my guard goes down. \u00a0Fatigue and unrealistic expectations begin to set in. \u00a0I remember this from my Achilles repair, too. \u00a0As I got closer to the end of the two months in a cast and on crutches, my desire to throw them away, cut off the cast and get on with it was extreme.<\/p>\n<p>The main effect I see now is mental. \u00a0I&#8217;m physically fatigued and my body still has work to do on integrating that mesh which leaves my mental acuity less than I need. \u00a0Latin just seems too hard.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fall \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Harvest Moon This hanging in between, between the trauma of the operation and a recovered back to normal state, has begun to wear on me. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=16634\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. In Between<\/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":[3967,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feelings-2","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions\/35970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}