{"id":2079,"date":"2007-06-29T19:57:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T17:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-2079.html"},"modified":"2014-01-19T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T21:33:48","slug":"standing-poised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2007\/06\/29\/standing-poised\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing poised&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8230;at the edge of the high diving board, toes curled just over the edge, arms extended to their fullest length.  I can feel the thrum of the board as I flex my calves a little, just scraping the soles of my feet on the rough surface.  This is the moment before the moment, before I bounce down, then up, before I soar and slowly draw my hands together above my head, before the long inevitable plunge to the water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning I fly out to Amsterdam.  Monday I start my new job.  Although I will be back in Edinburgh every weekend in July, tomorrow&#8217;s trip marks the first stage of moving out of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><em>I take a deep breath&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;at the edge of the high diving board, toes curled just over the edge, arms extended to their fullest length. I can feel the thrum of the board as I flex my calves a little, just scraping the soles of my feet on the rough surface. This is the moment before the moment, before I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/2007\/06\/29\/standing-poised\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standing poised&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1609,1615],"class_list":["post-2079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-migration","tag-work-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2079\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/abi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}