{"id":16496,"date":"2014-04-10T18:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16496"},"modified":"2014-04-13T13:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T20:55:21","slug":"tulips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16496","title":{"rendered":"Tulips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140410-181359.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140410-181359.jpg\" alt=\"20140410-181359.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYesterday we headed north to see the tulips in Skagit Valley, to play on the beach and just roll around in the sun and love together.  It was a great day.  I was neither super active (it was sauntering around the tulip field and the hiking portion totaled .5 miles) nor was I terribly strict with my diet (pizza, pretzels, a million almonds, a zillion goldfish crackers and a mere two apple slices), but it was a perfect day, nonetheless.<br \/>\nI kept reflecting, while I was up there, that it was this same journey, last year at this time, was when I first realized the impact my inactivity had had on my family.  It was the first time I felt sure enough on my feet and had faith in my endurance to attempt a 1\/4 mile hike down to the beach and back.  I remember being apprehensive about the return hike up the hill as I walked down, and shocked that it was no big deal when we finally ascended.  It was the first time I saw, firsthand, the fruits of my efforts.  It&#8217;s no coincidence that we were there again, when I&#8217;ve been feeling less determined, certainly less than last year.  It was fun to retrace my steps and remember the strength I discovered last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140410-182114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/20140410-182114.jpg\" alt=\"20140410-182114.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToday we were back at it.  We hit the streets as soon as we dropped the second kiddo off at school.  I had a great eating day and am feeling pretty solid.  We ran 2.8 miles today and did the hill again for a total of 3.8 miles.  I also attempted a pull up.  That was laughable.  However, I did learn that I can actually support my own weight when I am hanging!  In fact, I was hanging AND swinging and let go and jumped like a monkey.  I felt pretty tough!><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we headed north to see the tulips in Skagit Valley, to play on the beach and just roll around in the sun and love together. It was a great day. I was neither super active (it was sauntering around the tulip field and the hiking portion totaled .5 miles) nor was I terribly strict &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/?p=16496\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-littlejohnt","post-16496","format-standard","category-diary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16505,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16496\/revisions\/16505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.littlejohnesque.com\/shazam\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}