{"id":20376,"date":"2017-12-15T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=20376"},"modified":"2017-12-15T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T15:49:30","slug":"spinning-dials-mocking-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=20376","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Dials, Mocking Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hate that bathroom scale. Why do I even have it when it only infuriates and berates and depresses me?<\/p>\n

A heating pad provided some solace and recovery for whatever the hell I did to my hamstring. However, I\u2019m still opting to skip the run today, hoping against hope that such a decision will benefit me in tomorrow’s marathon out in Jacksonville. But given the holiday cookies and treats I’ve overindulged in, this may be a Pyrrhic victory. That damn scale is mockingly telling me as much, groaning under my ballooning girth and heft.<\/p>\n

Man, I’m in a cruddy mood. I’ve never liked this time of year — Christmas, New Year’s and in the not-too-distant future my birthday. It always seems like a triumvirate of depressing endings. I know there are many who view it as celebrations and renewals, of one year’s end marking the beginning of a new, of hope not hate. But I’m a glass is three-quarters empty kind of guy and all I can see around this time of year is how much I failed to get done in my time spent, the regrets I have too many to mention, and while I did it my way it increasingly seems like my way is no way at all.<\/p>\n

Harrumph. Harrumph harrumph.<\/p>\n

This is a particularly lousy blog post so ya know what? Here’s a picture of what I apparently am emblematically at the moment:<\/p>\n

An Eeyore\/Debbie Downer hybrid.<\/p>\n

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Horrifying? Funny? Funnily horrifying?<\/p>\n

In the revised Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide To The Galaxy, this entry should read simply \u201cmostly sad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hate that bathroom scale. Why do I even have it when it only infuriates and berates and depresses me? A heating pad provided some solace and recovery for whatever the hell I did to my hamstring. However, I\u2019m still opting to skip the run today, hoping against hope that such a decision will benefit […]<\/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-20376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376","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=20376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}