{"id":8440,"date":"2018-01-02T22:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8440"},"modified":"2018-01-03T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T20:12:34","slug":"heres-the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8440","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s the Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8439\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Img_2045.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Img_2045.jpg 400w, https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Img_2045-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can you dig the Queen of Spades?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I did my card game exercise trick again tonight.  (Read <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8429\">&#8220;A Perfect Record&#8221;<\/a> for details.)<\/p>\n<p>The exercises were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hearts = 1 minute hip\/pelvis stretch using yoga blocks<\/li>\n<li>Diamonds = 1 minute back stretch on an exercise ball (while praying the thing would not burst under my 226 pounds)<\/li>\n<li>Clubs = 5 dumbell curls each arm (The heaviest dumbell we have is 15.  There are weights in the garage out back.  But I didn&#8217;t want to be a dumbell and walk in the cold to go use them.)<\/li>\n<li>Spades = 5 sit-ups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The stretching was fantastic and sorely needed.  I tend to run and not do much else.  I never stretch before or after I run.  I just like to run.  That&#8217;s it.  That&#8217;s why it takes some dorky trick like using a deck of cards to get me to do anything other than run.  But I know that only running is a bad long-term plan.  I guess the frigid weather has dealt me a good opportunity to see what other exercises suit me.  (See what I did there?  Two puns in one sentence.)<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I went through the entire deck.  So, 13 times through each exercise.  That equals 65 sit-ups.  But as I said yesterday, I hate math.  So, I&#8217;ll stop all the fancy calculations right there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did my card game exercise trick again tonight. (Read &#8220;A Perfect Record&#8221; for details.) The exercises were as follows: Hearts = 1 minute hip\/pelvis stretch using yoga blocks Diamonds = 1 minute back stretch on an exercise ball (while praying the thing would not burst under my 226 pounds) Clubs = 5 dumbell curls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?p=8440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Here&#8217;s the Deal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8441,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8440\/revisions\/8441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}