{"id":16,"date":"2002-05-05T21:56:28","date_gmt":"2002-05-06T05:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jokeofalltrades.com\/root\/archives\/2002\/05\/05\/of-rocks-and-vodka\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T15:29:58","slug":"of-rocks-and-vodka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/2002\/05\/05\/of-rocks-and-vodka\/","title":{"rendered":"Of rocks and vodka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhat a drag. I&#8217;m <em>finally<\/em> feeling up to some real physical activity after having surgery on my shoulder\/back on Tuesday, so my roommate and I went to the gym today to do a bit of climbing at the wall (I was looking forward to trying out my new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.singingrock.com\/sit\">harness<\/a>). As luck (ever my friend) would have it, the wall was closed. It was <em>also<\/em> closed last weekend, so I haven&#8217;t done any climbing in over a week. My strength is waning, I&#8217;m beginning to lose my balance, my focus, my fearlessness, and all those qualities I have been cultivating to make me the ultimate climbing machine I was last week before the surgery. Now, I&#8217;m sure, I&#8217;m back to being a novice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI popped up to NYC Friday to see a good friend who&#8217;s getting married in June. She lives in England now, but was on a layover on her way back to Colorado, where the wedding will occur. I drove into the city Friday morning and miraculously found parking on 57th St. We tooled around Central Park for an hour or two and walked down to the <a href=\"https:\/\/russianvodkaroomnyc.com\/\">Russian Vodka Room<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t open yet, so we had some coffee and a cannoli at a non-Starbucks&trade; (dear lard, Starbucks&trade; is <em>everywhere<\/em> in NYC!) to pass the time. We then had some deliciously wonderful flavored vodkas at the ol&#8217; RVR and called it a day. And what a day it was&#8230;I love NYC.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"np\">\nNP: Belle and Sebastian, <i>If You&#8217;re Feeling Sinister<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a drag. I&#8217;m finally feeling up to some real physical activity after having surgery on my shoulder\/back on Tuesday, so my roommate and I went to the gym today to do a bit of climbing at the wall (I was looking forward to trying out my new harness). As luck (ever my friend) would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhoke.name\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}