{"id":20096,"date":"2014-03-06T21:02:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20096"},"modified":"2014-03-06T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T21:03:10","slug":"one-step-forward-one-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20096","title":{"rendered":"One step forward, one step back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19054\">Seven months ago<\/a> I had a recurrence of plantar fasciitis in my right foot. So, I stopped running. I tried stretching, not stretching, massage, wearing sneakers indoors, everything I could think of. <\/p>\n<p>I bought a compression sock which squeezes the arch at night; it helped a lot, after the first night. The second morning, I woke up and my Achilles tendon started aching. Then it started burning. Then it turned into a blinding, searing, mind-bending pain that lasted two or three minutes. I assume it had cut off the circulation to my foot, and I was feeling all the blood returning and the nerves snapping back on.<\/p>\n<p>Then I bought some orthopedic sandals to wear around the house. But I'm not used to wearing sandals that don't have a heel strap. So, that made walking in them kindof strange. So strange that I strained a muscle or tendon or something in my right big toe. So now I have to walk on the outside of my right foot because any pressure at all on the big toe hurts enough to take my breath away. <\/p>\n<p>But, walking on the outside of my foot for a month has helped the plantar fasciitis!<\/p>\n<p>Intelligent designer, my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months ago I had a recurrence of plantar fasciitis in my right foot. So, I stopped running. I tried stretching, not stretching, massage, wearing sneakers indoors, everything I could think of. I bought a compression sock which squeezes the arch at night; it helped a lot, after the first night. The second morning, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20098,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20096\/revisions\/20098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}