{"id":336,"date":"2011-04-18T12:39:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-04-18T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T19:40:16","slug":"a-comedy-of-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/a-comedy-of-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"A comedy of errors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran with Murphy today. He was there from the moment I decided I was really going to venture out into the icy cold rain and howling wind. He made sure I followed his law.<\/p>\n<p>My iPhone GPS was acting up again. I did my best to get it to come to an understanding of where I really was, but if you look at the map on RunKeeper, you&#8217;ll see that it got very lost along the way. I&#8217;m not really sure how it can get so confused so often. I&#8217;m hoping it has something to do with interference from the rain, but I&#8217;m not very impressed with it to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>My drawstring broke. My shorts dropped. I fell to the ground. My phone buzzed with text message after text message until I thought someone was desperately trying to get in touch with me. I accidentally paused RunKeeper for a few seconds trying to figure out who was texting me so much. It turned out to be text spam. I hate text spam. I did figure out how to resume RunKeeper, but it wasn&#8217;t pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/runkeeper.com\/user\/jtalbot\/activity\/32242884\">30:13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I used to complain about the weather in high school, my swim coach would say something like, &#8220;It&#8217;s sunny somewhere else right now, where your competition is training. You may choose not to train today, but when you meet him, he will beat you.&#8221; That&#8217;s why I decided to run today, and that&#8217;s why I kept deciding to keep running each time I wanted to call it quits today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran with Murphy today. He was there from the moment I decided I was really going to venture out into the icy cold rain and howling wind. He made sure I followed his law. My iPhone GPS was acting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/a-comedy-of-errors\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-runkeeper","category-running","category-workouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}