{"id":2088,"date":"2012-10-02T19:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T02:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2012-10-02T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T02:45:23","slug":"knew-knees-minus-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=2088","title":{"rendered":"Knew Knees &#8212; Minus 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2089\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2089\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2089\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=2089\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?fit=363%2C286&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"363,286\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Knew Knees!\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;So that&amp;#8217;s what they look like!&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?fit=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?fit=363%2C286&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2089\" title=\"Knew Knees!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?resize=300%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Knew Knees!\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?resize=150%2C118&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fcover1.jpg?w=363&amp;ssl=1 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So that&#8217;s what they&#8217;ll look like to the TSA!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tuesday, October 9, 2012 is K-Day &#8230; also known as slice and dice day. Both knees replaced. At the same time.<\/p>\n<p>After having seen the pain and strain that Nina went through, I made up my mind I would only do this once. I&#8217;ll probably complain (and loudly at times), but hopefully I&#8217;ll remember I only have to do this once.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow is the last appointment with the surgeon. They&#8217;ll take a bunch of &#8220;before&#8221; x-rays that&#8217;ll helpfully guide them to having a good &#8220;after&#8221; set of images. By good, I mean both legs the same length, feet on the right leg, feet pointing in the right direction, and all that stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, October 9, 2012 is K-Day &#8230; also known as slice and dice day. Both knees replaced. At the same time. After having seen the pain and strain that Nina went through, I made up my mind I would only do this once. I&#8217;ll probably complain (and loudly at times), but hopefully I&#8217;ll remember I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=2088\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knew Knees &#8212; Minus 7<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knew-knees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-xG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}