{"id":15709,"date":"2016-04-04T21:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=15709"},"modified":"2016-09-08T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T23:20:00","slug":"foot-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/foot-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>Photo from Monday 4 April 2016, posted on 6 April 2016. \u00a0Icelandic politics are still in turmoil.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Monday marked an important milestone, as I drove myself to work that day! \u00a0And back home! \u00a0It felt very adult. \u00a0Walking between\u00a0the car and\u00a0the entrance took a while though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today was day six of walking unassisted (no more crutches!), albeit using very small steps. \u00a0When the screw came out last week, the doctor referred me to a physiotherapist, which I met this morning. \u00a0He guesstimated that I should be walking mostly limp-free by mid-to-late May, and then he did some ankle-loosening magic which increased my stride-length noticeably. \u00a0Apparently, my main problem is stiffened ligaments from being immobile in a cast for so long.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this week will go down in history as one of the most bonkers in Icelandic politics. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure how long these links will last but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/\">RUV<\/a>, Iceland&#8217;s BBC\/NPR, posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/what-exactly-is-going-on-in-iceland\">a primer to the situation<\/a>\u00a0(the last image is brilliant), and then quite seriously <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruv.is\/frett\/enginn-skilur-hvad-er-ad-gerast-a-islandi\">embedded the Dead Parrot sketch by Monty Python to explain the coverage of events along with screen-shots of international news-sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15710\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15710\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15710\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15710\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE.jpg\" alt=\"Selfies from the parking lot at work, where I drove myself!\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_20160404_083448-COLLAGE-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15710\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Selfies from the parking lot at work, where I drove myself!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo from Monday 4 April 2016, posted on 6 April 2016. \u00a0Icelandic politics are still in turmoil.] Monday marked an important milestone, as I drove myself to work that day! \u00a0And back home! \u00a0It felt very adult. \u00a0Walking between\u00a0the car and\u00a0the entrance took a while though&#8230; Today was day six of walking unassisted (no more<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/foot-getting-better\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hrefna","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15711,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15709\/revisions\/15711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}