{"id":1727,"date":"2007-08-30T14:15:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2007-08-30T14:15:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T19:15:04","slug":"you-know-theres-something-wrong-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1727","title":{"rendered":"You know there&#8217;s something wrong, when:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas, 1974. Got a new Schwinn. One of the proudest days of my life. Four days later, playing in the snow with friends, I slide down a steel slide (a waterslide in summer, ends in hard ice in winter) and hurt my leg. Not being a pansy, I stayed out the rest of the day, playing, skating, sledding, etc. <\/p>\n<p>later that evening Dad says &#8220;Come on in for supper&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>me: &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel much like eating&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>dad: &#8220;Start the car, mama, we got to get this kid to the hospital&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four fractures to the tibia and fibula (two each) and several of the small bones of the ankle damaged. To this day, if I swivel my ankle it pops like popcorn. <\/p>\n<p>Worst part, they cut off my red suede denim leisure suit pants. Pissed me off no end, they were also a Christmas present. <\/p>\n<p>Five months in casts. Didn&#8217;t get to ride my bike till midsummer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas, 1974. Got a new Schwinn. One of the proudest days of my life. Four days later, playing in the snow with friends, I slide down a steel slide (a waterslide in summer, ends in hard ice in winter) and hurt my leg. Not being a pansy, I stayed out the rest of the day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}