{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-23T12:33:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/sit-ups-and-football\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T12:33:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T11:33:24","slug":"sit-ups-and-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/sit-ups-and-football\/","title":{"rendered":"sit-ups and football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started doing situps last week &#8211; or should I say I did it for 2 days. By the 3rd day, I started having this pain in my lower abdomen. Then<br \/>\nI caught the cough that&#8217;s been going round (probably due to the weather)\u00a0 and the pain really started &#8211; I started to dread the cough as it was<br \/>\nreally bad down there at my waist line whenever i coughed. In fact, I thought I must have ruptured something! The pain gradually eased off<br \/>\nsome days later. I think I will start again 2moro. Can&#8217;t be a superhero without plenty of exercise huh?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch football much, but it seems the argument between fans after the games is much more enjoyable &#8211; especially when all the fans<br \/>\nsupport the same team &#8211; like Nigeria&#8217;s loss tonight to Ivory Coast. Nigeria&#8217;s population is about 160million. If we take away 20million<br \/>\nrepresenting the under-5s who are not yet sure what the hoola-baloo is all about plus yours truly, the remaining 140million less one are<br \/>\nall world-class coaches\/technical advisers (or wanna-bes) who in their own eyes are as qualified as the next man for the job and would give<br \/>\nWesterhof (or whoever is currently taking away the foreign exchange) a run for &#8220;our&#8221; money anyday. There is likely to be some truth in there,<br \/>\nbut how do you wittle down 140million to the 50 or so who might actually deserve a shot at the position? &#8211; a real needle in a haystack dilema \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n21\/01\/2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started doing situps last week &#8211; or should I say I did it for 2 days. By the 3rd day, I started having this pain in my lower abdomen. Then I caught the cough that&#8217;s been going round (probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/sit-ups-and-football\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}