{"id":2488,"date":"2011-03-30T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T20:39:19","slug":"remembering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=2488","title":{"rendered":"Remembering &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-mskarma.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2490\" title=\"dance-mskarma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/dance-mskarma.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s true, sometimes I forget what my body <em>can<\/em> do if I have been lost in the virtual world of 3D avatars.\u00a0 Sure, I can occasionally still pull off doing the splits on the odd soul train line after the dinner dishes are done.\u00a0 But I have to remind myself that I can&#8217;t pop-it-lock-it-drop-it with my 14 year old while singing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YkyhvCdJ_vM\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Burnin<\/a>&#8216;.\u00a0 Though I suspect I&#8217;ll keep trying every now and Zen as we both laugh and I feel this body push as far as it can in all its glorious dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Today was one of those hard POTS days, when standing at the bathroom mirror brushing my teeth set off a full on flare that took at least an hour to quiet down.\u00a0 Certainly, no dancing today &#8230; and not much of a chance to get out and enjoy the amazing SoCal spring sun.\u00a0 But I did manage to get to the park, even if only for 20 minutes.\u00a0 And when I spotted a tire swing from the corner of my eye &#8230; I thought &#8220;I can do that!&#8221;\u00a0 It just feels so good to do such simple things, especially when much of the day is spent simply remembering how it use to feel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/me-tire-swing-animation-sm.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2489\" title=\"me-tire-swing-animation-sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/wp-content\/uploads\/me-tire-swing-animation-sm.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true, sometimes I forget what my body can do if I have been lost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2498,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}