{"id":959,"date":"2007-05-19T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=959"},"modified":"2007-05-19T16:29:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T20:29:21","slug":"i-hate-discomforts-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"I hate discomfort&#8217;s side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mild venting here: I have some moderate lower-back pain today. Yes, I&#8217;ve done the back exercises you&#8217;re supposed to do (do <em>not<\/em> lie down with ordinary muscle-related back pain if you can avoid it), and I&#8217;m sure it will go away in a day.  <\/p>\n<p>But one consequence is that I have just a touch less energy and a lot less capacity to concentrate&#8230; just in time for my son&#8217;s sleepover birthday party tonight. So if you read some blog entries and wonder why I&#8217;m blogging instead of completing other work tasks&#8230; well, some things take more concentration than others. The discomfort&#8217;s mild in terms of pain. The mental costs are much greater.<\/p>\n<p>Incidents such as this always makes me appreciate every pain-free day I ever have (which fortunately is most of them, at this point in my life). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mild venting here: I have some moderate lower-back pain today. Yes, I&#8217;ve done the back exercises you&#8217;re supposed to do (do not lie down with ordinary muscle-related back pain if you can avoid it), and I&#8217;m sure it will go away in a day. But one consequence is that I have just a touch less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}