{"id":44,"date":"2008-09-22T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2009-06-12T18:19:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T23:19:26","slug":"my-left-leg-is-too-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/2008\/09\/my-left-leg-is-too-short\/","title":{"rendered":"My Left Leg is Too Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p>Note: We are back home this weekend. I went to the dentist on Monday and will go back again on Tuesday. Now we hope to be walking again on Wednesday the 24th. While not walking, I will fill my days with a few essays on topics that come to me while walking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I walk on the left side of the road facing traffic. The road slopes from the center off tot he side. As I walk, the ground beneath my left leg is an inch or two lower than the ground beneath my right leg.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought this little difference wouldn&#8217;t matter. I was wrong. I found myself limping during the afternoon miles trying to compensate for this difference. The outside of my left ankle hurt as the constant leaning puts pressure there.<\/p>\n<p>If my left leg were an inch longer, I would be fine. I could keep my body level while walking on the sloping ground. I suppose I could find some special shoes with really tall soles on the left shoe. Maybe not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Note: We are back home this weekend. I went to the dentist on Monday and will go back again on Tuesday. Now we hope to be walking again on Wednesday the 24th. While not walking, I will fill my days with a few essays on topics that come to me while walking. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[124,130],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-observations","tag-health","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/takingawalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}