{"id":2312,"date":"2012-05-23T20:19:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T03:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2012-05-23T20:19:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T03:19:57","slug":"i-hear-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=2312","title":{"rendered":"I hear voices&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/7245994816\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8016\/7245994816_40499e7b96.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/7245994816\/\">Untitled<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/obnoxiousaries\/\">Random and Odd<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tIt blows my mind when I check my Facebook and have a comment from someone I admire SO much.<br \/>\nIt scares the shit out of me when I get a message from him because truly I don&#8217;t know what I am going to get. Is he going to grill me on running 5 miles every other day? Will he be giving me a pointer on my next race? Will he have another pearl of relationship wisdom?  I never know.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I posted the fact that I was thrilled that I got 42 out of 44 on my second 10k. I mentioned I wasn&#8217;t the last in my age group either.  When I saw he posted something, I set my phone down and let my stomach settle before I read it.  What I was expecting was, &#8220;that&#8217;s not enough..you need to push&#8230;go be strong..&#8221;<br \/>\nInstead he compared our struggle of our runs. AS IF my measly 10k (his warm up) is anything to compare to his hundreds, but he told me in a message before that fast is relative and we all run our own race.   It brought me to tears again. He reminded me at the end what it really was&#8230;a nice run in the sun.<br \/>\nI was so grateful that he keeps me grounded and in his unique way motivates me to be a better person in our running world.  He pushes me when I think I am not worthy of this blessing.<br \/>\nSometimes I get lost in my head out there and I always hear what he told me on our run together when I am out there.<br \/>\nThat conversation is mine and I thought of sharing that time so I wouldn&#8217;t forget it and so others can learn from it.  There is SO little in this big world that is all mine, and that time is something I will cherish.  My friend Amanda, Tabitha and Lester (who was there with me) are the only ones that I want to share it with. The one thing I am going to be selfish about. :)<\/p>\n<p>It still just blows my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untitled, originally uploaded by Random and Odd. It blows my mind when I check my Facebook and have a comment from someone I admire SO much. It scares the shit out of me when I get a message from him because truly I don&#8217;t know what I am going to get. Is he going to grill me on running 5 miles every other day? Will he be giving me a pointer on my next race? Will he have another pearl of relationship wisdom? I never know. Yesterday I posted the fact that I was thrilled that I got 42 out of 44 on my second 10k. I mentioned I wasn&#8217;t the last in my age group either. When I saw he posted something, I set my phone down and let my stomach settle before I read it. What I was expecting was, &#8220;that&#8217;s not enough..you need to push&#8230;go be strong..&#8221; Instead he compared our struggle of our runs. AS IF my measly 10k (his warm up) is anything to compare to his hundreds, but he told me in a message before that fast is relative and we all run our own race. It brought me to tears again. He reminded me at the end what it really was&#8230;a nice run in the sun. I was so grateful that he keeps me grounded and in his unique way motivates me to be a better person in our running world. He pushes me when I think I am not worthy of this blessing. Sometimes I get lost in my head out there and I always hear what he told me on our run together when I am out there. That conversation is mine and I thought of sharing that time so I wouldn&#8217;t forget it and so others can learn from it. There is SO little in this big world that is all mine, and that time is something I will cherish. My friend Amanda, Tabitha and Lester (who was there with me) are the only ones that I want to share it with. The one thing I am going to be selfish about. :) It still just blows my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}