{"id":25642,"date":"2018-06-22T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=25642"},"modified":"2018-06-22T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T13:16:43","slug":"june-22-2018-a-new-urban-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=25642","title":{"rendered":"June 22, 2018 &#8211; A New Urban Legend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I awoke this morning with an extremely swollen lower lip. \u00a0It felt like a sequel to that old urban legend about waking up in a bathtub of ice with a note saying, \u201cCall a Doctor&#8230; we took your kidney!\u201d \u00a0Only this time I awoke to a midnight Botoxing with a note beside me saying, \u201cCall Melanie Griffith!\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I was pretty freaked out until I remembered a somewhat similar thing happening to me as I finished Leadville in Colorado. \u00a0It was at altitude, albeit lower than Kili, but I remember coming down from there and my lip swelling. \u00a0A quick google search yielding opinions both terrifying and more comfortingly confirming that this was a high to low altitude side effect. \u00a0I just look a little too much like a Kardashian. \u00a0And I smell like one too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because I still stink from my climb no matter how many showers I take.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because the Kardashians stink, in the pejorative sense in that I don\u2019t like them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because that\u2019s kind of a joke and I\u2019m explaining it so it will be funny.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Because then we can laugh about it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Of course it\u2019s hard for me to laugh because of these giant lips.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here\u2019s an artist\u2019s rendering of how I look:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC-768x1023.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC-769x1024.jpeg 769w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC-660x879.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC-450x599.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/F09E9D40-E9D9-4497-B9A7-B6388C52CBBC.jpeg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke this morning with an extremely swollen lower lip. \u00a0It felt like a sequel to that old urban legend about waking up in a bathtub of ice with a note saying, \u201cCall a Doctor&#8230; we took your kidney!\u201d \u00a0Only this time I awoke to a midnight Botoxing with a note beside me saying, \u201cCall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25642","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=25642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}