{"id":2184,"date":"2011-03-19T21:32:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T01:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2011-04-11T20:20:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T00:20:51","slug":"break-free-from-the-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/19\/break-free-from-the-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Break Free from the Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep meeting like-minded folk at the gym. By that, I mean skilled shit-talkers. You’ve already met Paul<\/a>. Also, there’s Phil<\/a>, and his lovely wife Erin<\/a>. I could go on. The shit-talkers are various and sundry.<\/p>\n

Today, we were doing the WOD in heats. I had already gone, as had the woman who sat beside me, both of us panting on the floor and cheering on the other athletes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, remember Brutus<\/a>? Despite the fact that there’s an ever-present stream of booming bass and\/or loud guitars thundering through the speaker, Brutus is always wearing his iPod. I turned to the woman next to me.<\/p>\n

Me: Do you ever wonder what Brutus is listening to? <\/em><\/p>\n

Her: I kinda feel like it’s a motivational speaker.<\/em><\/p>\n

Me: That’s what I thought!<\/em><\/p>\n

Her: Maybe it’s his own voice. “Come on, Brutus! You can do it!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Me: “Hands on the bar, you pussy!”<\/em><\/p>\n

We watched him do some double-unders and 75-lb power snatches.<\/p>\n

Me: Either that, or Wilson Phillips’ “Hold On for One More Day”<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her: On repeat.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep meeting like-minded folk at the gym. By that, I mean skilled shit-talkers. You’ve already met Paul. Also, there’s Phil, and his lovely wife Erin. I could go on. The shit-talkers are various and sundry. Today, we were doing the WOD in heats. I had already gone, as had the woman who sat beside … Continue reading Break Free from the Chains<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}