{"id":19302,"date":"2013-04-01T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19302"},"modified":"2016-04-30T13:38:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T19:38:09","slug":"my-left-shoulder-and-how-it-communicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19302","title":{"rendered":"My Left Shoulder and How It Communicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bloodroot Moon<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday the class with Scott Edelstein on marketing and selling books happened in a typical classroom setting, a meeting room of the Loft at their space at Open Book on Washington Avenue. \u00a0The room had a blackboard, a white board, exposed beams and brick walls, the usual rectangular tables and plastic chairs with backs.<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, fresh and eager, I leaned in or sat up, entranced by Scott&#8217;s revelation of a new world, publishing in the high electronic age. \u00a0At breaks I stretched and at lunch I visited the small deli cum coffee shop downstairs for lunch. \u00a0Another plastic chair.<\/p>\n<p>The time after lunch was long. \u00a0My nap went missing as the clock hit 1, then 2, then 3. \u00a0By 4 my shoulder had begun to ping me. \u00a0I don&#8217;t like this anymore. \u00a0Let&#8217;s leave. \u00a0Get outta here. Scram.<\/p>\n<p>Since the last part of the class involved romancing the agent, my intentions overrode my bodies urgent signals. \u00a0I stayed through the last word. \u00a0But I left immediately after it, went downstairs and headed home.<\/p>\n<p>Back home the shoulder felt like a small knife had been inserted just below the clavicle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shoulder.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19304\" title=\"shoulder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shoulder-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shoulder-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/shoulder.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a>nestling up next to the shoulder joint and pressed through all the way through to my back. It didn&#8217;t hurt in \u00a0sharp, glancing away sort of pain, but more in a subdued ache with&#8211;small flames like you used to use to decorate the model cars of your youth&#8211; flickering around the knife. \u00a0It&#8217;s agony, a soft agony, spread throughout the body, inviting other muscles to tense up, join in the attempt to isolate the pain, make it stay up there. \u00a0Having, of course, the opposite effect.<\/p>\n<p>Not fun. \u00a0Kate heated up a neck wrap and after two applications my shoulder settled down, rejoined the rest of the body and allowed as how I might go on with the rest of the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \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 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Bloodroot Moon On Saturday the class with Scott Edelstein on marketing and selling books happened in a typical classroom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=19302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Left Shoulder and How It Communicates<\/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":[60,127,197],"tags":[2568,4215],"class_list":["post-19302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-health","category-writing","tag-pain","tag-shoulder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302","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=19302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35780,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302\/revisions\/35780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}