{"id":1598,"date":"2010-03-05T09:53:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2010-03-05T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:53:18","slug":"weather-change-whinging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"weather change &#038; whinging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, when I was a wee bitty girl, I was a Highland dancer. I danced competitively for\u00a0about 12 years. Anyone who&#8217;s seen Highland dancing can probably understand how the constant bouncing from one foot to the other\u00a0does a big number on a lot of dancers\u00a0knees and ankles. I&#8217;m no exception.<\/p>\n<p>Just for balance, I have the most problems with\u00a0my left knee and right ankle. Most of the time it&#8217;s just a dull little ache that I&#8217;ve learned to ignore.\u00a0Until the weather starts to change. For a few weeks each year &#8211; usually as it warms up in spring and cools down in autumn &#8211; I&#8217;m in complete agony. My joints seem to swell and ache no matter what I do.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect\u00a0my seasonal joint pain visit will be a little extra special this year.\u00a0Not in a good way of course.\u00a0I wrenched my knee a little when doing lunges a few weeks back. Now I&#8217;m\u00a0suffering through the annoyance of odd knee pain when I&#8217;m sitting or climbing stairs (up or down) that goes away when I&#8217;m walking.<\/p>\n<p>Really. I know. It sounds odd. The only time my knee and ankle don&#8217;t\u00a0bother me lately is\u00a0when I&#8217;m walking. Wonder why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long ago, when I was a wee bitty girl, I was a Highland dancer. I danced competitively for\u00a0about 12 years. Anyone who&#8217;s seen Highland dancing can probably understand how the constant bouncing from one foot to the other\u00a0does a big number on a lot of dancers\u00a0knees and ankles. I&#8217;m no exception. Just for balance, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-leaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1600,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}