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<\/a><\/p>\nThese are pictures of the Marquam Trail, the trail I walked on every evening in Portland.\u00c2\u00a0 This trail runs right behind my parents house.\u00c2\u00a0 You can’t really see any other houses from it.\u00c2\u00a0 It is protected city land.\u00c2\u00a0 By car and\/or bicycle this is 5 minutes from downtown Portland (admittedly, it takes much longer to come back up the hill by bicycle.)\u00c2\u00a0 Makes me wonder why I don’t live there.<\/p>\n
Here are three pix from Portland I forgot to post. Here is the SASTM tool that my Physical Therapist used to massage my scar.\u00c2\u00a0 (No, its not a sex toy…) I asked if I could buy one.\u00c2\u00a0 The set of 6 or 8 or so costs over $4000.\u00c2\u00a0 Spendy little jobs.\u00c2\u00a0 But they work well. … Continue reading Three pix from Portland<\/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":[19],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backstory","tag-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"