{"id":99,"date":"2013-07-17T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T13:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/17\/turning-the-corner\/"},"modified":"2013-07-17T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T13:30:55","slug":"turning-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/17\/turning-the-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning the corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday I shaved my beard off. It was a drastic measure, but one I take about once a year. It had been well over a year this time.<\/p>\n<p>And by Monday, I felt as good as I had in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who believe in energy and such, the explanation is likely to be that I was holding lots of built-up negative energy in the beard. I believe this. There is another mitigating factor &#8212; I had not smoked my pipe in over 2 months (or anything else) and have been smoking it since Saturday to relax, so the&nbsp;ingredients in the tobacco might have also relaxed me some. But I smoked it on Saturday and did not feel significantly better on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>My doctor has increased my blood pressure medication. I usually don&#8217;t take any medication, but my pressure has been high enough to listen to my doctor when she prescribed it two weeks ago. It does not seem to be working, but I&#8217;ll give it a shot. I go see her again in an hour.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had gotten another hour or two of sleep last night. But I figure by the end of the week I will be caught up on sleep, and that&#8217;s the only measure I had been dreadfully under on.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<\/p>\n<p>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday I shaved my beard off. It was a drastic measure, but one I take about once a year. It had been well over a year this time. And by Monday, I felt as good as I had in a long time. For those of you who believe in energy and such, the explanation is [&hellip;]<\/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-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}