{"id":20,"date":"2007-09-07T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2007\/09\/07\/fruit-cake-fruit-cake\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T10:36:45","slug":"fruit-cake-fruit-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/2007\/09\/07\/fruit-cake-fruit-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruit Cake.  FRUIT CAKE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday I signed up across the road from work.  Yesterday I went for an hour long induction.  Today I had my first session.<\/p>\n<p>Yep.  I&#8217;ve joined the gym.<\/p>\n<p>No, before you scoff at me and point out that I&#8217;ve tried the gym regime a number of times in the past, with varying levels of failure, allow me to point out a few differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve got a couple of gym-legend workmates giving me advice and encouragement through each session<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m paying for it now, so there&#8217;s an obligation to get value for money<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going <i>before<\/i> work starts.  All it requires is getting a reasonably early night and then the early wake up isn&#8217;t actually too bad &#8211; and even if it is, after 30 minutes in the gym I&#8217;m already feeling much, much more awake and ready for the day.  Also, it means I can go out in the evening without having to worry about arriving late\/skipping an after-work gym session to accommodate it.  Oh and finally, it means I don&#8217;t spend the whole of my working day thinking of excuses why I shouldn&#8217;t go to the gym, as in previous &#8220;after work&#8221; gym attempts\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve (just about) convinced you that this will work this time then that&#8217;s good.  <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just hope it&#8217;s actually true. :-)<\/p>\n<p>Toodles,<\/p>\n<p>Pat a.k.a. &#8220;Fruit Cake&#8221;<br \/>\n<small>(Apparently &#8220;Beef Cake&#8221; wasn&#8217;t appropriate for a veggie\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday I signed up across the road from work. Yesterday I went for an hour long induction. Today I had my first session. Yep. I&#8217;ve joined the gym. No, before you scoff at me and point out that I&#8217;ve tried the gym regime a number of times in the past, with varying levels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-pats-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.squage.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}