{"id":37,"date":"2005-06-10T13:32:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-10T04:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-06-10\/37"},"modified":"2005-06-11T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T07:32:04","slug":"i-didnt-kill-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-06-10\/37","title":{"rendered":"I didn’t kill myself!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBrian Acton batting away a disk<\/span> meant for Dave Filo<\/b>\nas Susan Churchill and Jesse MacNish look on<\/small>\n( from a game<\/span> in May 2001 )<\/span>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

\n\nIn a previous life (before the book, before the baby) I\nused<\/span> to play ultimate Frisbee with friends at Yahoo. I played<\/span> in the first Y! ultimate game, back in 1997,\nand fairly consistently for about four years. I\nwasn't<\/span> outstanding, but wasn't too bad. Physically, I was in<\/span> pretty good shape. (If you're not familiar,\nUltimate Frisbee is like soccer with a Frisbee<\/span>\ninstead of a ball.<\/span>)\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThen, I started<\/span> working on the book<\/a>. With\nevery waking moment not devoted to work<\/a>\ngoing to the book, I soon turned<\/span> into a blob<\/span> (gaining 15 pounds over the\ntwo years working on it). Ugh. Then Anthony was born, and any thoughts of\ngetting back in shape went out the window. Ugh.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI've long had random back aches, but once when Anthony was 7 months old\n(two years ago), I was carrying<\/span> him and my back\njust “went out” (whatever that means -- I\neffectively<\/span> couldn't walk for three weeks after). Since then, on my\nbest days, my back only hurts a lot.<\/span> It's\nhorrible. It's gotten<\/span> so that on some days I'm so\nscared about how my back will hurt that it starts to hurt all on its own.\nWhen the thought of having to put your socks on drives you to terror,\nsomething like running (which is what ultimate Frisbee is all about) is\nseems unthinkable.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nYet today, I visited<\/span> Yahoo! and played Ultimate\nwith the guys, and actually could do much more than I'd thought. The times<\/span> when the game was most active was the best,\nas I thought<\/span> less about the pain (or potential\npain — there was both) and so my fear didn't cripple me —\njust the actual pain. It was wonderful<\/span> to get out\nthere again, even if only for perhaps 20 minutes.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nThe best part about it is that I didn't<\/span> kill\nmyself. I thought<\/span> I'd be in major pain afterward,\nbut I don't<\/span> even feel achy (at least not any more\nthan I would<\/span> normally). It\nmakes<\/span> me want all the more to get back into shape!\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a previous life (before the book, before the baby) I used to play ultimate Frisbee with friends at Yahoo. I played in the first Y! ultimate game, back in 1997, and fairly consistently for about four years. I wasn't outstanding, but wasn't too bad. Physically, I was in pretty good shape. (If you're not familiar, Ultimate Frisbee is like soccer with a Frisbee instead of a ball.) <\/p>

Then, I started working on the book. With every waking moment not devoted to work going to the book, I soon turned into a blob (gaining 15 pounds over the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}