{"id":596,"date":"2005-06-29T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wheresdrew.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2006-05-06T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2006-05-06T00:19:57","slug":"your-mom-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/2005\/06\/29\/your-mom-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Your mom was right."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good posture <b><i>is<\/i><\/b> important &#8211; especially after you&#8217;ve messed up your back.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;Sit up straight.&#8221;&#8221;Don&#8217;t slouch.&#8221;I can&#8217;t recall how many times I heard those phrases (and others like them) from my mom, but I assure you it was quite a few. Like many kids, I didn&#8217;t listen, and just went with what was comfortable.<\/p>\n<p><b>I think I should&#8217;ve listened to my mom.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I had to go back to the chiropractor today, since I&#8217;d managed to tweak my back over the weekend. Nowhere near as bad as the first time it went out, but still rather uncomfortable. How&#8217;d I mess it up this time?<\/p>\n<p><b>Sitting in bed, playing videoogames.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hardly the kind of activity you&#8217;d think could throw your back out, but I assure you, it can happen. I explained to my doctor how I&#8217;d been sitting and he got a very parental look on his face. This led to a list of things am I no longer supposed to do and things I should be doing.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> No more sitting cross-legged.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> No serious bending of my back.<\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> No more sleeping on my stomach.<\/p>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> When sitting, feet go flat on the floor and my back stays straight.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a pretty simple list, right? On the surface is it. It&#8217;s all common-sense stuff, but I don&#8217;t know how easy it&#8217;ll be to do. #1 is going to be the killer, I think. That&#8217;s my normal posture for sitting in bed and gaming, and it&#8217;s going to be a hard habit to break. Sitting upright with my feet on the floor just doesn&#8217;t feel relaxed or natural. I&#8217;m going to have to try and make it work though.<\/p>\n<p><b>I mean, it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m going to give up gaming. ^.^<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good posture is important &#8211; especially after you&#8217;ve messed up your back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wheresdrew.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}