{"id":150,"date":"2016-01-05T08:03:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-01-05T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T16:03:51","slug":"getting-back-into-the-swing-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/getting-back-into-the-swing-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Back into the Swing of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the holiday season, Thanksgiving through New Years that is, my fitness and focus on fitness tend to decline (unless there is a lot of snow &#8220;powdayz!&#8221;). I am seeing a pattern here \ud83d\ude42 I think I am going to just go with it. For about 1 month out of a year I am going to take a break and NOT WORRY ABOUT IT. That&#8217;s hard for me&#8230; I love to feel like I am staying in shape, more than that, I love to be in shape&#8230; ready to tackle most anything with my buddies or, sadly, possibly in an emergency situation. It&#8217;s all about being prepared. Always training.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a metaphor for more possibly. Maybe it&#8217;s a time of fasting and resting. There wasn&#8217;t a single prophet in the Bible that didn&#8217;t fast at some point. Ok, yea, Its a time of fasting from exercising.\u00a0I feel better about this already.<\/p>\n<p>January is here though. The fast is done and it&#8217;s time to get <em>ON IT!\u00a0<\/em>I was looking on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasignup.com\/\">Ultra Sign Up<\/a>\u00a0last night for races and events around my area here. There are some great runs coming up&#8230;. signing up&#8230; see you out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the holiday season, Thanksgiving through New Years that is, my fitness and focus on fitness tend to decline (unless there is a lot of snow &#8220;powdayz!&#8221;). I am seeing a pattern here \ud83d\ude42 I think I am going to just go with it. For about 1 month out of a year I am going to take a break and NOT WORRY ABOUT IT. That&#8217;s hard for me&#8230; I love to feel like I am staying in shape, more than that, I love to be in shape&#8230; ready to tackle most anything with my buddies or, sadly, possibly in an emergency situation. It&#8217;s all about being prepared. Always training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/getting-back-into-the-swing-of-things\/\">&sim;&nbsp;Continue Reading&nbsp;&sim;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,2,32],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5OfD9-2q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}