{"id":38,"date":"2004-12-22T04:29:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T08:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2009-01-02T04:30:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T08:30:48","slug":"big-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Big Surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghosty&#8217;s <em>Big Surrender<\/em> is the song doing the heavy rotation rounds on iTunes at the moment. Actually, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if this was also one of those songs I loved in my university days and then forgot.<\/p>\n<p>In completely unrelated news, I got the results of a health-check I took at the beginning of December. Basically, I am healthy and my numbers are all within the &#8220;normal&#8221; range <em>except<\/em> for one.<br \/>\nMy cholesterol numbers were off the charts. I think the way of measuring cholesterol in Japan is a little different from the West, but nonetheless, according to the Japanese figures, the ideal range is 130ish to 220ish. I was 340.<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to start getting healthy. I will do it next year. Fresh slate and all that. That&#8217;ll be my one and only new year&#8217;s resolution.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39\" title=\"thailand\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thailand.jpg\" alt=\"thailand\" width=\"334\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thailand.jpg 334w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thailand-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghosty&#8217;s Big Surrender is the song doing the heavy rotation rounds on iTunes at the moment. Actually, it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me if this was also one of those songs I loved in my university days and then forgot. In completely unrelated news, I got the results of a health-check I took at the beginning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}