{"id":51,"date":"2006-02-01T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2006-02-01T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T12:07:00","slug":"pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"PT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At my physical therapy appointment today, I thought someone who walked out of a small room a couple of tables away looked and sounded familiar. I asked my therapist, &#8220;is that <a local TV sports reporter>?&#8221; Yes.<\/p>\n<p>That was my last appointment there. The muscle spasm in my back is really gone. I&#8217;ve been typing and writing for much longer stretches than a week ago, so I&#8217;m hoping that the tingling in my left hand is going away, too. It&#8217;s hard to tell how much better it may or may not be getting. Two weeks ago there were days when I could barely button my shirt, because I couldn&#8217;t find the buttonholes with my left hand. It felt as though there was a lot of static on the line from my fingertips and the feeling was getting lost in the noise. There&#8217;s still static, but the signal-to-noise ratio is improving. I&#8217;ve been thinking that the way to measure the improvement is in how many decibels the signal-to-noise ratio is, but I have no real way to measure that.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At my physical therapy appointment today, I thought someone who walked out of a small room a couple of tables away looked and sounded familiar. I asked my therapist, &#8220;is that ?&#8221; Yes. That was my last appointment there. The muscle spasm in my back is really gone. I&#8217;ve been typing and writing for much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}