{"id":568,"date":"2006-12-12T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T18:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/pride-before-a-fall"},"modified":"2007-10-21T00:33:06","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T21:33:06","slug":"pride-before-a-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/pride-before-a-fall","title":{"rendered":"Pride before a fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when I get <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">too cocky<\/span> old and cranky<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/myknee.jpg\" alt=\"Ouch\" class=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I was walking through the mall (it was late and I was fluey so maybe that&#8217;s a better explanation than cockiness) and there were lots of kids (that is, teenagers) sitting around. I thought &#8220;humph, kids&#8221; while walking to the stairs &#8212; and of course I stumble and bump my knee on a stair.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I thought &#8220;humph, annoying little boys&#8221; I tripped on something invisible on the street. Maybe I should just remember to be nice inside my head as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(In the upper corners of the photo you can perhaps see the scars from my knee surgery in 1997.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when I get too cocky old and cranky Yesterday I was walking through the mall (it was late and I was fluey so maybe that&#8217;s a better explanation than cockiness) and there were lots of kids (that is, teenagers) sitting around. I thought &#8220;humph, kids&#8221; while walking to the stairs &#8212; [&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-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}