{"id":356,"date":"2004-09-08T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-08T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=356"},"modified":"2004-09-08T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-08T12:52:00","slug":"injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been exercising a lot lately in pursuit of general fitness, and also in preparation for the great Alaska adventure to begin next week.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve sprained my ankle, solidly.  <\/p>\n<p>I was at the karate school, doing jumping jacks.  Jumping jacks, dammit.  I must have done a hundred thousand jumping jacks in my life without injury.  Landed on the outside edge of my right foot, which promptly folded under with a dismay inducing *pop* sound.  I gimped home and proceeded to elevate, ice, and compress it (we&#8217;re on round two of that sequence now), but I am seriously boned.  I&#8217;m hoping that this is one of those that feels a lot better in the morning, but I&#8217;m guessing that the reality is that I won&#8217;t know the real extent of the injury until morning.<\/p>\n<p>It looks to me like it&#8217;s more in line with a sprain than a fracture:  I can walk on it, with pain, and icing reduces the pain considerably.<\/p>\n<p>Jen has generously let be borrow her foot support brace that she has recently moved out of, since her heel is all better now.<\/p>\n<p>Grrrrrr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been exercising a lot lately in pursuit of general fitness, and also in preparation for the great Alaska adventure to begin next week. Now I&#8217;ve sprained my ankle, solidly. I was at the karate school, doing jumping jacks. Jumping jacks, dammit. I must have done a hundred thousand jumping jacks in my life without [&hellip;]<\/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-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}