{"id":2256,"date":"2013-03-18T10:17:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:17:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:17:15","slug":"breather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2013\/03\/breather.html","title":{"rendered":"Breather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we start by saying that Punxsutawney Phil is a big fat liar? The groundhog promised us an early spring. Guess who&#8217;s serving up groundhog for dinner tonight? Stupid Phil.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I ran in as many layers as I did in January. Whenever I run in the brutal cold, I come home with huge swathes of red on my body, and it itches like all heck. I have to wait as long as I can to shower as when I do, the cold patches start to burn like pins pricking all over my body. I thought that this happened to everyone, but according to my friend (and running partner) the Duchess*, I have an actual honest-to-goodness known &#8220;thing&#8221; (albeit to a minor degree): It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.com\/health\/cold-urticaria\/DS01160\">Cold urticaria<\/a>. I feel so special now!<\/p>\n<p>At this one moment in time, I have that feeling of utter freedom as I&#8217;m between things. Last week I sent both my revised novel and marketing plan to my agent. Yesterday was the Women&#8217;s Seder at my synagogue, of which I am co-chair. It&#8217;s a big event, where we spend a year writing a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Haggadah\">haggadah<\/a> and then we have the actual planning\/doing of the seder itself, which was no small feat. I was excited that we had 68 women come, and it seemed to be a rousing event. <\/p>\n<p>(Of course, as I was leaving&#8211;wearing an actual skirt, jewelry, and a shirt with no rips [well, I thought there were no rips; one was discovered later, but the intention was there], I asked the boy, &#8220;How do I look?&#8221; He, never taking his eyes off the computer, answered, &#8220;Fine.&#8221; That boy is his father&#8217;s child through and through.)<\/p>\n<p>So at this moment, I have no deadlines more pressing than next Monday&#8217;s Passover seder. There will be 20 of us, but others folks are helping with the cooking and I&#8217;ve got an entire week to prep, which is more than I&#8217;ve ever had, I think. <\/p>\n<p>Time to tackle the more mundane to-do list and sneak in a movie or two off Netflix! Yea!<\/p>\n<p>*By the way, I acknowledge that it&#8217;s odd that I haven&#8217;t mentioned this friend before, as she&#8217;s been my most faithful running partner for about two years now; however, running takes place in a &#8220;vault.&#8221; Everything said on a run is absolutely secret, as they&#8217;re  basically 6-mile therapy sessions, so most of what I would say about her, I can&#8217;t, because it&#8217;s been vaulted. Hence, she is a mystery woman to you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we start by saying that Punxsutawney Phil is a big fat liar? The groundhog promised us an early spring. Guess who&#8217;s serving up groundhog for dinner tonight? Stupid Phil. This morning I ran in as many layers as I did in January. Whenever I run in the brutal cold, I come home with huge [&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":[9,115,15],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jewish","tag-passover","tag-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}