{"id":184,"date":"2007-12-19T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2007-12-19T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T22:00:01","slug":"the-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/19\/the-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined a gym a couple of months ago. As a result, I&#8217;ve become very buff, but I don&#8217;t want to talk about that now. Instead, I want to make a few observations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First:<\/strong> It takes all kinds. One guy I see there occasionally is simply <em>amazingly<\/em> fat; he&#8217;ll have the treadmill on the lowest setting and be taking a nice, leisurely stroll. Another guy is incredibly pumped-up; I mostly see him giving advice to his acolytes or doing something impossible with free weights.<\/p>\n<p>Probably 3\/4 of the customers are men. The women don&#8217;t appear to occupy quite as wide a span of the in- to out-of-shape dimension, and they aren&#8217;t as likely to have tattoos as the men. (A clear majority of the men have a few tattoos, but a handful of biker\/lifer types are basically covered with them.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second:<\/strong> XM Radio has a whole <a href=http:\/\/www.xmradio.com\/ledzeppelin\/index.xmc>channel<\/a> devoted to Led Zeppelin. And they play it at the gym. Incessantly. To my regret. When I see people grimacing as they work out, I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re straining their muscles, or if they&#8217;ve just had enough of Robert Plant&#8217;s singing. Also, the other day they played <em>Kashmir<\/em>, and it drove me crazy trying to remember what it was called. Was it <em>Marrakech<\/em>? No, that&#8217;s Crosby, Stills, and Nash. <em>Katmandu<\/em>? No, that&#8217;s that horrible thing by Bob Seeger. <em>Singapore<\/em>? <em>Casablanca<\/em>? <em>Muscat and Oman<\/em>? Finally I figured it out, but it took like 2 days. The thing with Led-Zep is they had like three or four songs I don&#8217;t hate, and only one I like: <em>Fool in the Rain<\/em>. (Okay, <em>Hot Dog<\/em> makes two.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third:<\/strong> The gym&#8217;s staff is very patriotic. They even have a poster-sized photograph of <a href=http:\/\/www.schwarzenegger.com\/en\/athlete\/index.asp?sec=athlete>the governor<\/a> on the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined a gym a couple of months ago. As a result, I&#8217;ve become very buff, but I don&#8217;t want to talk about that now. Instead, I want to make a few observations. First: It takes all kinds. One guy I see there occasionally is simply amazingly fat; he&#8217;ll have the treadmill on the lowest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-2Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}