{"id":1266,"date":"2008-09-23T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T20:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2008-09-23T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T20:38:31","slug":"punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the purest irony that our bodies work the way they do. \u00c2\u00a0After a period of sloth, abuse and excess, any exercise is rewarded with a couple of days of extremely sore muscles and pain. \u00c2\u00a0If I had just kept working out and pushing my body towards some diminishing end point of “fitness” before the summer began, I would feel great right now. \u00c2\u00a0I similarly felt pretty good before I started working out again, although I definitely didn’t look all that good. \u00c2\u00a0Rather pasty, pudgy and perspire-ey actually. \u00c2\u00a0So, there you go. \u00c2\u00a0Our bodies punish us whenever we change states. \u00c2\u00a0Stop exercising, become Jabba the Hut. \u00c2\u00a0Start exercising, become Whiny McScreamsalot.<\/p>\n

Where’s my exercise pill<\/a>? \u00c2\u00a0I’d probably need to eat them from a bowl like cereal at this point….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the purest irony that our bodies work the way they do. \u00c2\u00a0After a period of sloth, abuse and excess, any exercise is rewarded with a couple of days of extremely sore muscles and pain. \u00c2\u00a0If I had just kept … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-kq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}