{"id":626,"date":"2018-09-09T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T13:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=626"},"modified":"2018-09-09T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T13:41:39","slug":"health-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Health is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I went into the hospital because my kidney (yes, I have only one) isn&#8217;t working well and I had to stay overnight. This weekend I slept wrong, and I have pain, I mean almost labor-like pain, in my neck, left shoulder and arm weakness.<\/p>\n<p>I say all this not for pity, but to explain that if you&#8217;re not healthy, you can&#8217;t write.<\/p>\n<p>It took me all day to do something that would normally take me 3 hours. I edited the three <em>Fire<\/em> stories, &#8220;War Mage,&#8221; and produced the new back-flap of &#8220;War Mage.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t (and still can&#8217;t) type for long periods. My day job is agony.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to Physical Therapy for it, but it&#8217;ll take some time before it heals. In the meantime, I&#8217;m skipping the October fall festivals and going to concentrate on RI Comicon. Hopefully this pain will be gone or at least eased up by then.<\/p>\n<p>So I have nothing else to report. I do suggest that if you&#8217;re going to write, that you try to stay as healthy as you can because without it, you can&#8217;t do anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend I went into the hospital because my kidney (yes, I have only one) isn&#8217;t working well and I had to stay overnight. This weekend I slept wrong, and I have pain, I mean almost labor-like pain, in my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=626\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}