{"id":1577,"date":"2011-02-15T13:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2011-02-15T13:40:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T18:40:42","slug":"ahh-the-things-i-do-to-prove-a-point-to-no-one-but-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Ahh, the things I do to prove a point&#8230; to no one but myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the home stretch now.\u00a0 Fourth week on the slow carb diet.\u00a0 Yesterday was hell.\u00a0 I was in extreme abdominal pain all afternoon and I felt like so many shades of shit by supper time that I didn&#8217;t even want to hear the word chilly, which I&#8217;d previously decided would be my dinner.\u00a0 All I wanted was bread or oatmeal or something.\u00a0 So I had popcorn because I figured hey, at least corn is a vegetable, but also starchy so it&#8217;ll coat my\u00a0aggravated intestines.\u00a0 And then I had some candy &#8217;cause I figured, hey, sugar is yum-yum.\u00a0 Today I weighed myself and I&#8217;ve now concluded that the secret to weight loss is popcorn and candy &#8217;cause I&#8217;m down to 126 lbs.\u00a0 Or maybe the secret to weight loss is (TMI alert) explosive diarrhea.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s probably the popcorn.\u00a0\u00a0And the candy.\u00a0 Sweet, sweet black licorice deliciousness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the home stretch now.\u00a0 Fourth week on the slow carb diet.\u00a0 Yesterday was hell.\u00a0 I was in extreme abdominal pain all afternoon and I felt like so many shades of shit by supper time that I didn&#8217;t even want to hear the word chilly, which I&#8217;d previously decided would be my dinner.\u00a0 All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10,65,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}