{"id":1403,"date":"2007-03-04T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1403"},"modified":"2007-03-04T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-04T15:52:00","slug":"the-high-cost-of-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1403","title":{"rendered":"The High Cost of Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wine for last night&#8217;s party = $30<br \/>\nSeveral martinis and a tiny sampling of Petar&#8217;s beer = free, courtesy my host &#038; hostess<br \/>\nCab fare at 7:45am this morning from Coxwell to High Park = $25<br \/>\nNew running chip for my iPod because my old one fell off my shoe = $45<br \/>\nDouble espresso at Starbucks to get me going = $5<br \/>\nRunning 8km in 1hr5mins (10km was just not happening) in *extreme* post-drinking discomfort?<\/p>\n<p>Priceless.<\/p>\n<p>I regret nothing. Except, perhaps, the photos on my camera that tell me I&#8217;ll be getting called &#8220;Tits McJedi&#8221; for at least the next few weeks.<br \/>\nDamn that Darth Vader helmet!<br \/>\nDamn my irresistably show-offable lingerie!<br \/>\nThank you Melly for this morning&#8217;s life-saving cup of tea and wake-up call!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine for last night&#8217;s party = $30 Several martinis and a tiny sampling of Petar&#8217;s beer = free, courtesy my host &#038; hostess Cab fare at 7:45am this morning from Coxwell to High Park = $25 New running chip for my iPod because my old one fell off my shoe = $45 Double espresso at <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1403\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}