{"id":48032,"date":"2018-07-08T07:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48032"},"modified":"2018-07-08T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T13:27:01","slug":"oh-my-aching-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48032","title":{"rendered":"oh my aching back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\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\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 Woolly Mammoth Moon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-48033\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180619_093818-e1531055676949-420x835.jpg\" alt=\"20180619_093818\" width=\"126\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180619_093818-e1531055676949-420x835.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180619_093818-e1531055676949-744x1480.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180619_093818-e1531055676949-768x1527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180619_093818-e1531055676949.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/>Lifted a case of 24 cans of wet dog food out of the box on Thursday. Kate happened to be there. The moment I straightened up, I said, &#8220;Fuck. I shouldn&#8217;t have done that.&#8221; I lifted it with my back slightly bent, not with my legs, but my arms. Friday and Saturday were walk around like a hunchback days. I know better, but it had a cardboard cap on it. I took that off and it was very light, just cardboard. Somehow my body took that as a cue that the canned dog food would be light, too, so I let my guard down. Better this morning, but geez. How old am I again?<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48034 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180319_053142-e1531055807472-420x601.jpg\" alt=\"Kate at 16\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180319_053142-e1531055807472-420x601.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180319_053142-e1531055807472-744x1065.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180319_053142-e1531055807472-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180319_053142-e1531055807472-1200x1718.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kate&#8217;s figured something out. She&#8217;s been much, much calmer with the grandkids here, better for her and for them. It&#8217;s great because she has more fun, doesn&#8217;t end their visits exhausted, wiped out. I can see a corner being turned. She&#8217;s also about to get a handle on her nausea, I can feel that, too. When she does, and she gains back a few pounds? Watch out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer\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\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 Woolly Mammoth Moon &nbsp; Lifted a case of 24 cans of wet dog food out of the box on Thursday. Kate happened to be there. The moment I straightened up, I said, &#8220;Fuck. I shouldn&#8217;t have done that.&#8221; I lifted it with my back slightly bent, not with my legs, but my arms. Friday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=48032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">oh my aching back<\/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":[65,127,4312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health","category-mountains-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48032","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=48032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48036,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48032\/revisions\/48036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}