{"id":3363,"date":"2012-08-07T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2012-08-07T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T12:00:24","slug":"lest-you-think-im-exaggerating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/lest-you-think-im-exaggerating\/","title":{"rendered":"Lest You Think I’m Exaggerating…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, it’s apparently common knowledge that I’m a bit of an embellisher. What can I say? My family motto is “Always leave a story better than you found it.” Which wouldn’t be such a big deal, except for the fact that my sister <\/a>had no idea that my feet really are as swollen as I’ve been saying they are. Until she saw me in person and promptly screamed and ordered me to put my legs up.<\/p>\n

I’m not exactly proud<\/em> of how my feet look these days, but I would like to milk the maximum amount of pity from my situation.<\/p>\n

So, without further ado, this is what my feet look like at the end of a work day.<\/p>\n

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And this is what my feet look like when I make good use of the reclining sofa on display at Costco while Kristian shops.<\/p>\n

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I think that the other swollen girl in my yoga class put it best when she said, “I look down at my feet and it’s like they belong to somebody else.” In my case, it feels a bit like I look down at my feet and they belong to a rhinoceros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, it’s apparently common knowledge that I’m a bit of an embellisher. What can I say? My family motto is “Always leave a story better than you found it.” Which…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,52,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumble","category-gummybear","category-random"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yggS-Sf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3368,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoperoth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}