{"id":107,"date":"2005-02-21T15:08:59","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T22:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2008-11-27T13:39:09","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:39:09","slug":"a-hitch-in-my-getalong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"A Hitch in My Getalong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All weekend I&#8217;ve been troubled by a stitch in my side. Feels like a horse kicked my left kidney. Saturday, I laid trail for my <a href=\"http:\/\/half-mind.com\/Hashing\/who.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Hash House Harrier<\/a> group. The stitch was unpleasant, but I walked it off after the first mile and apart from some stiffness I felt okay. Sunday was horrible, though &#8211; I could barely walk, the upper part of my body twisted to the right to lessen the pain, from the car to Border&#8217;s Books. When I woke up today, Monday, I thought I was back to normal, but then I hiked up a mountain path to a cave &#8211; mama mia! I&#8217;m calling the doctor tomorrow. Hope I don&#8217;t have a kidney stone or anything like that!<\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of Presidents&#8217; Day, my friend Angie and I rode down to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/coro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coronado National Memorial<\/a>, just southwest of Sierra Vista. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/coro\/cave.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Coronado Cave<\/a> is small but pure &#8211; no guided tours, no guardrails, no lighting. You have to check in at the visitor center before hiking up to the cave, then check out when you hike back down &#8211; and you have to carry a flashlight so you can find your way around inside the cave. I hope to hike back up someday when that damn stitch is gone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_867\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-867\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-867\" title=\"cave\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cave.gif\" alt=\"Angie in the cave entrance\" width=\"358\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-867\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angie in the cave entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking of Coronado, I was flat-assed amazed to learn that he went all the way to what is now Kansas, searching for the Seven Cities of Cibola. I really have to read more!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-868\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-868\" title=\"coronado\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/coronado.gif\" alt=\"No way they wore those heavy helmets all the way from Mexico City to Kansas!\" width=\"358\" height=\"475\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No way they wore those heavy helmets all the way from Mexico City to Kansas!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By the way, Presidents&#8217; Day? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opm.gov\/fedhol\/2005.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Office of Personnel Management<\/a> still calls it Washington&#8217;s Birthday, and they&#8217;re the official keepers of federal holidays. And while we&#8217;re at it, note that apostrophe &#8211; if this upstart holiday is really supposed to count for both Washington <em>and<\/em> Lincoln, it&#8217;s Presidents&#8217; Day, not President&#8217;s Day. Suppose they&#8217;d get that right at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/history\/presidents\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House home page<\/a>? Suppose again. Hey, I swear, half an hour ago the White House page said &#8220;President&#8217;s Day&#8221; but now it says &#8220;Presidents&#8217; Day &#8211; I guess someone is reading my blog after all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All weekend I&#8217;ve been troubled by a stitch in my side. Feels like a horse kicked my left kidney. Saturday, I laid trail for my Hash House Harrier group. The stitch was unpleasant, but I walked it off after the first mile and apart from some stiffness I felt okay. Sunday was horrible, though &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}