{"id":2320,"date":"2010-02-04T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/?p=2320"},"modified":"2010-02-04T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:50:19","slug":"going-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2010\/02\/04\/going-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been doing pretty good with going to the gym regularly for the past few weeks. But between the party we hosted this past weekend, and having friends stay with us for a few days, I got sidetracked.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m generally not upset about this. I never understood those people who say that the more you go the gym the more you&#8217;ll want to go. These are the same people who say they like going to the gym. I&#8217;m saying it here and now: I will never (NEVER) enjoy going to the gym. I don&#8217;t understand how discomfort can ever equal pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after a week of my most strenuous activity being lifting my arm to put a cookie in my mouth, I went to the gym last night. Feeling gutsy, I bumped up my crunches from 3 reps of 15 to 3 reps of 20. It doesn&#8217;t sound like much of a difference but, damn, those extra 15 crunches made their impact.<\/p>\n<p>And instead of this making me want to go more frequently, it&#8217;s making me want to avoid the gym.\u00a0 But then as I was dressing this\u00a0morning I noticed some old marks on my belt\u00a0indicating where I used to be able to clasp the belt into place (two holes &#8220;thinner&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>Sigh &#8211; why can&#8217;t I just get mono?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been doing pretty good with going to the gym regularly for the past few weeks. But between the party we hosted this past weekend, and having friends stay with us for a few days, I got sidetracked. Now, I&#8217;m generally not upset about this. I never understood those people who say that the more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2320\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}