{"id":19154,"date":"2017-10-20T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T12:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=19154"},"modified":"2017-10-20T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T16:07:13","slug":"tragedy-is-when-i-cut-my-finger-comedy-is-when-you-fall-into-an-open-sewer-and-die-mel-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=19154","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. &#8211; Mel Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was drizzling this morning. I should\u2019ve known better.<\/p>\n<p>The sidewalks were s big slippery, that old age of wet leaves bring like I\u2019ve applying to the grit, grime, and muck of city sidewalks mixes with a modicum of water.<\/p>\n<p>Three miles into my run run, my right footfall slipped out from under me. Then my left foot landed only to slip slide out and I was plummeting to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I fell as one does at an ice rink or a roller skate park.\u00a0 Gracelessly and flailingly.<\/p>\n<p>I landed on my butt with a loud thud. There was no snapping, cracklings, or popping so I don\u2019t think I broke anything. But I\u2019m definitely bruised.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0hurt too much to run \u00a0 The strides were and are still\u00a0too painful; then as now there\u2019s a constant tension of knotted discomfort even whilst standing still.<\/p>\n<p>I walked ever so slowly and painfully back the three miles to my front door. Each stride of my legs hurting my bum, chastising my stupidity, crushing\u00a0my soul.<\/p>\n<p>It was still drizzling ever so slightly as I walked, which was a good thing. It obscured my tears of frustration, pain, and hopelessness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was drizzling this morning. I should\u2019ve known better. The sidewalks were s big slippery, that old age of wet leaves bring like I\u2019ve applying to the grit, grime, and muck of city sidewalks mixes with a modicum of water. Three miles into my run run, my right footfall slipped out from under me. Then [&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-19154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154","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=19154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}