{"id":5202,"date":"2018-09-09T21:41:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2018-09-09T21:46:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:46:10","slug":"frankenstein-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/09\/09\/frankenstein-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did I tell you how much my feet hurt those first few days? Yes,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/08\/19\/first-week-retrospective\/\">I did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each night I would go to bed thinking, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not possible these feet will recover by morning.&rdquo; Yet, each morning they were better, only to be beat to a pulp that day with the cycle starting over again.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I went and got me some new shoes. They aren&rsquo;t exactly stylish, but they spoke to me (to my feet) from the moment I put them on. And once I started wearing them, the daily foot anguish was gone &mdash; completely gone. Happy feet.<\/p>\n<p>So I have some shoes that make me look something like a cross between a Frankenstein monster and a nurse doing rounds. (Although to be honest, I recognize that my teacher&rsquo;s sore feet can&rsquo;t possibly approach what nurses must deal with on their long shifts.)<\/p>\n<p>So now, I go to school in the morning wondering whether the kids notice the shoes, but to tell the truth I don&rsquo;t care, because my feet are no longer sore! And in any event, one day or two out of the week, I wear more fashionable shoes &mdash; shoes that used to hurt to high heaven but for which I found gel heel cushions that have softened the daily blows sufficiently for me to walk in style a while. Well maybe not really&nbsp;<em>in style<\/em>. And anyway it&#8217;s only <em>once in a while<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;because my Frankenstein shoes are what my feet sorely needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did I tell you how much my feet hurt those first few days? Yes,&nbsp;I did. Each night I would go to bed thinking, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not possible these feet will recover by morning.&rdquo; Yet, each morning they were better, only to be beat to a pulp that day with the cycle starting over again. Finally, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5206,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}