{"id":55,"date":"2006-04-23T22:12:44","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T05:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=55"},"modified":"2006-04-23T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T05:12:44","slug":"freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"FREEDOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at my brother&#8217;s house in Atlanta this weekend for his &amp; Colleen&#8217;s wedding party shower reception thing. Had a great time. Dad got rear-ended for the second time in a year on Friday afternoon but is doing OK albeit some soreness. My grandfather is in a rehab center and doing better. Looks like he&#8217;s got a couple compressed vertebrae that are pinching a nerve. Ow.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the C &amp; C music factory for Saturday evening, I alternated between chugging water and drinking beer. I was in quite a bit of pain and obviously had a blockage in my system. After talking to my loving wife, I went back into the bathroom with that stupid plastic strainer funnel and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(warning: gross picture follows)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/hurr\/img\/kidney_stone.jpg\" alt=\"That Goddamn Kidney Stone\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>OW.<br \/>\nThose markings on the steel rule are millimeters. Final measurements were something like 6mm x 3mm x 2mm. That&#8217;s quite a bit larger than the 2 &#8211; 3mm they saw on the CT scan.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s one uncomfortable chunk of pointy junk I no longer have to deal with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at my brother&#8217;s house in Atlanta this weekend for his &amp; Colleen&#8217;s wedding party shower reception thing. Had a great time. Dad got rear-ended for the second time in a year on Friday afternoon but is doing OK albeit some soreness. My grandfather is in a rehab center and doing better. Looks like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sammich.org\/hurr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}