{"id":512,"date":"2005-02-17T20:18:02","date_gmt":"2005-02-18T04:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/?p=512"},"modified":"2005-02-17T20:18:02","modified_gmt":"2005-02-18T04:18:02","slug":"new-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/02\/17\/new-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"New Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We leave the house in twenty minutes at  4:20 AM with one stop to pick up my brother, Brian, in Cambridge,  to catch a 6:30 flight to Evansville, Indiana. I hope to update the blog from afar, but who knows.<\/p>\n<p> In the meantime, here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/knees.html\">photo <\/a>  that will surely raise questions such as: why (did you take it), how( did you get permission), and what (is it about your personality that weedles it\u00c3\u00ads way into those you simply build things for)? For the squeamish, these are the new knees (under the staples) of a native Michigander, and longtime golf pro at our local country club. He\u00c3\u00ads only about sixty, but he\u00c3\u00ads been walking backwards down strairs for years,and it is painful to even the casual observer to watch him get up from a sitting position. But no more.<\/p>\n<p>I joke about the four blog readers, but this month has shown a record<a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/1t.html\"> number<\/a> of visitors. This graph shows growth in years with the tall purple columns representing 2005. Although the stats are for mainecourse.com, it is the blog that has pushed those columns up. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Flattered by rakkity&#8217;s flower comment, I snapped <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/archives\/images\/open_blue.html\"> another<\/a>  . The blue is the sky through our kitchen window. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We leave the house in twenty minutes at 4:20 AM with one stop to pick up my brother, Brian, in Cambridge, to catch a 6:30 flight to Evansville, Indiana. I hope to update the blog from afar, but who knows. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/2005\/02\/17\/new-knees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecourse.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}