{"id":2412,"date":"2010-12-18T15:03:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2010-12-18T15:03:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:03:44","slug":"try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not making the Yoda joke. I am not making the Yoda joke. I am not making the Yoda joke.<\/p>\n<p>Reverb day 18 <i>Try. What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try in 2010? What happened when you did \/ didn&#8217;t go for it?<\/i> (Author: Kaileen Elise)<\/p>\n<p>First, let me tell you why I skipped yesterday, which was day 17, even though the number 17 is magical and delicious. <\/p>\n<p>49 % 1. It&#8217;s so magical and delicious that it can get along without me.<\/p>\n<p>49 % 2. I was so tired I was crying with laughter at the bobblehead Snoopy in the car in front of me.<\/p>\n<p>2% 3. Yesterday&#8217;s prompt included the phrase &#8220;going forward&#8221; which is one of my most despised phrases in the English language, right up there with &#8220;the baby&#8217;s awake,&#8221;  &#8220;I smell poop,&#8221; and &#8220;so, you working hard or hardly working?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the only thing I remember wanting to try was some kind of regular exercise routine.  The first few weeks of January went fantastic and then I got sick and then it was August.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I succeeded at the aerobics, in that I tried them.  It went <a href=\"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1766\"> like this.<\/a> I never went back, but I am OK with that.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to try: not to get sick as much.<br \/>\nI would like to try: all different brands of gin!<br \/>\nI would like to try: a food? But not yogurt. <\/p>\n<p>Skydiving?  I feel like I should say skydiving, yet I have absolutely no interest in skydiving.<\/p>\n<p>Knitting?<\/p>\n<p>Reading a book of science fiction?<\/p>\n<p>How about this. How about I will try the next thing that appears.  Unless it&#8217;s yogurt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not making the Yoda joke. I am not making the Yoda joke. I am not making the Yoda joke. Reverb day 18 Try. What do you want to try next year? Is there something you wanted to try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=2412\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[275,175,288],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-reverb10","tag-exercise","tag-yogurt-is-the-stuff-of-sadists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}