{"id":4998,"date":"2015-01-19T23:58:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T07:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T07:58:43","slug":"climbing-a-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4998","title":{"rendered":"Climbing a hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just time, I tell myself every time, it&#8217;s just time.<\/p>\n<p>As I roll up on my bike to the foot of the hill, I think, <i>this is it!  I can climb this thing!<\/i>  So I pedal and push upward.  But soon in a few seconds, I feel my thighs burning as my momentum slows and the only thing keep me balanced is the moving pedals.  So I put more strength into it.  One cycle.  Two.  Three.  four.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I can make it.<\/p>\n<p>I shift down.  Smaller.  Smaller.  Smallest.  But exhaustion tears through me.  Or is it laziness?  I am not sure, so I push up.  Because I tell myself that anything that goes up must come down.  I feel my body heat up and every single time, I am annoyed.  I wonder why I do this to myself.  A climb up a hill that I never wanted to do.  But soon, time passes and I am at the crest.  I am there.  And then without thinking, I zoom down, giving up all the energy that I used to get up there.<\/p>\n<p>And I think, that wasn&#8217;t that bad, was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just time, I tell myself every time, it&#8217;s just time. As I roll up on my bike to the foot of the hill, I think, this is it! I can climb this thing! So I pedal and push upward. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4999,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/4999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}