{"id":227,"date":"2009-02-08T19:48:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T02:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-02-08T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T02:48:44","slug":"half-way-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Half Way Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reached the half way point in my self-injections.  24 weeks done, 24 weeks to go. 72 injections.<\/p>\n<p>I decided I want to go get the most expensive box of 24 chocolates I can find, and eat one every week for the next 24 weeks.  Then (ever the pragmatist) I decided they might get stale, so I will get them in two rounds of 12. What is the most indulgent? Jacques Torres?<\/p>\n<p>It has actually taken me nearly 10 days to get adjusted to the idea that I halfway, and that I have more of this behind me, than in front of me.  It was really hard to feel that intuitively for a while.  Now I feel it, and it feels good.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, though, the last month, and the next two months are supposed to be the hardest ones.  I can attest to how hard the last 10 days have been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached the half way point in my self-injections. 24 weeks done, 24 weeks to go. 72 injections. I decided I want to go get the most expensive box of 24 chocolates I can find, and eat one every week for the next 24 weeks. Then (ever the pragmatist) I decided they might get stale, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Half Way Point<\/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":[3],"tags":[52,49,11],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metanarrative","tag-endurance","tag-food","tag-interferon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}