{"id":98,"date":"2008-08-11T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/shaping-up\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T07:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T13:51:24","slug":"shaping-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/shaping-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaping up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how you just wake up and know the day is going to be bad because you don&#8217;t sleep well and still ache somewhere?  How you drag yourself out of bed and mope to the can and wonder why you&#8217;re getting up today?  Yeah, me too.  For about 2 months now.  <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I woke up and something was different.  I didn&#8217;t feel different, look different (despite my ever growing belly), and yet, things that would have set me off just&#8230; didn&#8217;t.  I tooled along in a positive mood, gave a huge hug to my lovely wife on stage and did sound that turned out ok for the 12 people on stage.<\/p>\n<p>The USA winning the 1st round BBall game against China wasn&#8217;t a hoop and holler &#8211; even though it was a good win.  I guess it came to me last night watching the swimming finals in glorious HD&#8230; The olympic atheletes push themselves for pride in their country.  The same pride I have.  I push myself to the fridge for a snack and a beer.  Not quite as inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>I see them overcome obstacles and while, I do it from day to day in a more personal way, I&#8217;m astounded at thier level of fitness and competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I&#8217;m getting off my lazy butt.  I&#8217;ve been inspired by the celebration of overcoming an obstacle.  Granted, the US Men&#8217;s Relay Team got to do so against the <i>FRENCH<\/i> &#8211; which is <b><i>oh so good<\/i><\/b> &#8211; so I&#8217;m using that same spirit to overcome my laziness.  So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Watch our Louisiana &#8211;<small><small> because France is too freakin  far away<\/small><\/small>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how you just wake up and know the day is going to be bad because you don&#8217;t sleep well and still ache somewhere? How you drag yourself out of bed and mope to the can and wonder why you&#8217;re getting up today? Yeah, me too. For about 2 months now. Yesterday, I woke &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/shaping-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shaping up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[70,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuz-im-lazy","category-whoopin-up-on-china-r","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eb30-1A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}