{"id":10592,"date":"2015-03-05T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2015-03-05T12:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T19:36:37","slug":"the-knee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-knee\/","title":{"rendered":"The knee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wpid-wp-1425579234856.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"wp-1425579234856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/wpid-wp-1425579234856.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard really hurt his knee while skiing a few weekends ago. Over the last two weeks he&#8217;s taken\u00a0various days\u00a0off from work to rest in bed and try to heal. His brother Rob is coming to town in a week and he wants to be healed so they can ski together. The reality\u00a0is,\u00a0Rob&#8217;s ski trip of epic proportion will probably not include Richard.<\/p>\n<p>Richard\u00a0yells out in pain now and then, even when it&#8217;s the middle of the night. Is it from physical pain or mental anguish? Maybe both.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, my sister loaned him some crutches. Bionic Richard was then able to propel himself in great strides ahead of us. This made him lucky because we chose to visit BYU that day and it was one of the bleakest, coldest days we&#8217;ve had in a while. He could get between buildings long before any of us could.<\/p>\n<p>The kids and I\u00a0shopped the BYU bookstore until every aisle was exhausted in its possibilities for our happiness and entertainment. Richard languished in a corner of the store, found a chair, and then settled down for a nap. No one disturbed him because he looked so tired and was obviously physically challenged, his crutches propped against his chair. Sad, sad, sad.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, church seemed to brighten Richard&#8217;s mood. The\u00a0crutches were a source\u00a0for conversation, opportunities for humor, and some sympathy. He came home and told me that he must have talked to every member of our congregation.\u00a0That seemed to help him to perk up, even if he might have to go to a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not had to use the crutches as much the past two days. His moaning has decreased, and he was active all day yesterday. We&#8217;ll hope that it&#8217;s the beginning of better days for Richard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard really hurt his knee while skiing a few weekends ago. Over the last two weeks he&#8217;s taken\u00a0various days\u00a0off from work to rest in bed and try to heal. His brother Rob is coming to town in a week and he wants to be healed so they can ski together. The reality\u00a0is,\u00a0Rob&#8217;s ski trip of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/the-knee\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The knee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-fatherhood","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10609,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}