{"id":1417,"date":"2021-04-06T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:18:35","slug":"improvement-and-the-beauty-of-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/2021\/04\/06\/improvement-and-the-beauty-of-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvement and the Beauty of Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke suddenly just before 5 o&#8217;clock.  I started my day at 5:30.  I could hardly believe my ears when the scale announced my weight dropped to levels not heard for perhaps 15 years.  Just in the last eight hours I shed two pounds.  There is nothing like a bug to help slim down.  Plus, yesterday I was very satisfied with the meals I ate.<br \/>\nI did feel better this morning after a good night sleep.  My body had a few mild aches as I lay.  There was a tinge of chest and back irritation.  My temperature felt normal but should be taken again.  The question that remains to be seen is whether my stamina has returned.  I wonder if the virus I am fighting is causing me to burp so much?  Empirical evidence would say yes but the causality is still suspect.  With a rosy prospect in the morning, I planned to give work a go for the morning and see how far I got.  Writing first thing was promising for technical design later.  Yet by early afternoon, I wearied of work. At a quarter after 4 I crashed for a nap. Dinner had no appeal so I skipped food entirely. Listening to the local BPAC meeting and Hemingway documentary was the right level of activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I woke suddenly just before 5 o&#8217;clock. I started my day at 5:30. I could hardly believe my ears when the scale announced my weight dropped to levels not heard for perhaps 15 years. Just in the last eight hours I shed two pounds. There is nothing like a bug to help slim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_rsvp_to":"","_rsvp_max":"","_rsvp_show_attendees":"","_rsvp_instructions":"","simple_price":"","simple_price_label":"","venue":"","_template_start_hour":"","_template_start_minutes":"","_sked_minutes":"","_sked_stop":"","_sked_duration":"","_payment_gateway":"Cash or Custom","_rsvp_currency":"USD","_sked_hour":"12","_sked_end":"13:00","rsvp_tx_template":0,"_rsvp_start":0,"_rsvp_deadline":0,"_rsvp_deadline_daysbefore":"0","_rsvp_deadline_hours":"0","_rsvp_reg_daysbefore":"0","_rsvp_reg_hours":"0","_rsvp_count_party":"1","_timezone":"America\/Los_Angeles","_rsvp_on":true,"_add_timezone":false,"_convert_timezone":false,"_calendar_icons":true,"_rsvp_end_display":false,"_rsvp_rsvpmaker_send_confirmation_email":false,"_rsvp_confirmation_after_payment":false,"_rsvp_confirmation_include_event":false,"_rsvp_count":true,"_rsvp_yesno":true,"_rsvp_captcha":false,"_rsvp_login_required":false,"_rsvp_form_show_date":false,"_show_rsvpmaker_options":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jeremyjohansen.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}