{"id":17756,"date":"2017-10-04T02:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=17756"},"modified":"2017-10-04T02:41:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T06:41:08","slug":"october-4-2017-wrinkles-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=17756","title":{"rendered":"October 4, 2017 &#8211; Wrinkles in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>So this morning, after a pygmy &#8220;shower&#8221; I looked into my airbnb&#8217;s mirror and saw what I had suspected the past few weeks to be true.<\/p>\n<p>I had gotten older.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this new wrinkle on my face, a continuation of one that now can only be described as &#8220;Joker-ish.&#8221; It traces my mouth in a clown-ish paint job manner, lines forming a half circle outline of a ghastly smile. I had thought it was just the folds of skin from having slept on crumpling pillows, pillows seemingly filled with sealed air but having a pinprick hole that slowly deflated them into pancakes. But it turns out those weren&#8217;t temporary folds of the skin I saw &#8212; they&#8217;re permanent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been posting a number of photos lately that in my younger days I would&#8217;ve marked as, &#8220;nah&#8230; bad angle.&#8221; I look a but plumper than I&#8217;d like, and it&#8217;s not the low angle.<\/p>\n<p>Could it be too many waffles? Is there such a thing as too many waffles?<\/p>\n<p>And while I said this AirBNB was typically weird, my host Christine really went all out on the &#8220;nB&#8221; &#8212; look at this breakfast spread!\u00a0 She asked me last night when I wanted to have breakfast and I told her I was good just grabbing a piece of fruit.<\/p>\n<p>THIS is how she responded this morning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17760\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-830x623.jpg 830w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-230x173.jpg 230w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_8983-350x263.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And that was before she brought out the bread and cheese!<\/p>\n<p>What if I had asked for a waffle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigh. So this morning, after a pygmy &#8220;shower&#8221; I looked into my airbnb&#8217;s mirror and saw what I had suspected the past few weeks to be true. I had gotten older. There&#8217;s this new wrinkle on my face, a continuation of one that now can only be described as &#8220;Joker-ish.&#8221; It traces my mouth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}