{"id":633,"date":"2011-01-06T16:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2011\/01-06-my-bad-ass-cane\/"},"modified":"2011-01-06T16:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:58:19","slug":"my-bad-ass-cane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/my-bad-ass-cane\/","title":{"rendered":"My Bad-ass Cane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/5331458244\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5249\/5331458244_b59bf63ef4.jpg\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rgdaniel\/5331458244\/\">My Bad-ass Cane<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/rgdaniel\/\">rgdaniel<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI recently slipped on the ice in our driveway while taking the dogs out for a walk. Lying there in the snow, I wondered if *I* would ever walk again. I had to crawl through the fresh powder (covering the ice) to reach a doorknob to help pull myself upright, and hobble in agony back into the house. Let&#8217;s not even TALK about negotiating the stairs.<\/p>\n<p>But that was a couple of days ago, and now I have this very bad-ass walking cane. It&#8217;s a bit of a mystery, we&#8217;re not quite sure where it came from or what its story is, but for now, its story is that it helps me stay upright for short periods of time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing a very good cranky-old-geezer impression, waving it around and making demands. Nobody much listens, but it does make me feel better. A little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Bad-ass Cane, originally uploaded by rgdaniel. I recently slipped on the ice in our driveway while taking the dogs out for a walk. Lying there in the snow, I wondered if *I* would ever walk again. I had to crawl through the fresh powder (covering the ice) to reach a doorknob to help pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}