{"id":872,"date":"2013-12-13T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2013-12-13T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T17:20:58","slug":"back-on-the-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/13\/back-on-the-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost three months since my foot surgery (September 16).  Two months of extreme inactivity (minimal walking, no bike riding), and then a couple of weeks of some bike riding and three weeks of lots of walking in Taiwan.  Our hotel room in Taipei was on the 12th floor (oops &#8212; 11th &#8212; no 4th floor), and I tried to take the stairs whenever I could, but it still wasn&#8217;t up to my previous level of activity.<\/p>\n<p>Today for the first time in three months I played basketball, running with the younger guys.  It was better than I expected, in that I haven&#8217;t lost my shooting touch.  I hit the first two 3-point shots I tried, and ended up 3 for 5 from behind the line.  But after a game and a half, less than an hour of playing, I was tired and my legs were weak.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike before surgery, my foot didn&#8217;t hurt at all as I played.  Before the surgery, I would get shooting pains in my big and second toe, but not today.  After I got home my foot was aching a little and I iced it, but it looks like the surgery was worth it.  The big toe is still a lot less flexible than the one on the other foot, and I hope that works out too, but even if it doesn&#8217;t I&#8217;m better off than I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost three months since my foot surgery (September 16). Two months of extreme inactivity (minimal walking, no bike riding), and then a couple of weeks of some bike riding and three weeks of lots of walking in Taiwan. Our hotel room in Taipei was on the 12th floor (oops &#8212; 11th &#8212; no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}