On one hand, I tore the meniscus in my “good” knee (which immediately renders that term useless–now I just don’t have a good knee). I’m on crutches and a brace for a couple days to see if it settles down. I suspect the meniscus has been torn for several years and just flared up again yesterday.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, my husband informed me this afternoon that I’m a new mother–by sending pictures of Ajax, our new 8-week old Siamese seal point kitten. Pericles has been lonesome and Velcro(TM) Cat since Magellan died last year, so now he has a brother. For those of you counting, we now have six “kids” between us–three feline and three canine; three male and three female.<\/p>\n
On one hand, reading is still going very well for this year–twenty books so far and counting. (Deep Breath<\/em> is progressing nicely and will probably be #21.)<\/p>\n On the other hand, writing is going not so well. Everything I write feels dull and mundane. This time will pass, but it’s ugly.<\/p>\n No, I don’t have four hands, but there are so many times when that would be convenient (such as, when I’m on crutches, but, fortunately, that never happens).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On one hand, I tore the meniscus in my “good” knee (which immediately renders that term useless–now I just don’t have a good knee). I’m on crutches and a brace for a couple days to see if it settles down. I suspect the meniscus has been torn for several years …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,77,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-pets","category-reading","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}