{"id":354,"date":"2010-10-14T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T14:02:08","slug":"cut-it-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Cut it Out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First week of April I popped my right rotator cuff.  It hurts pretty much all the time.  I have friends that have had the surgery to repair it and their advice is all over the place.  People I really trust say to avoid getting the surgery if at all possible, others who are equally trusted say get it done ASAP.  I am 64 years of age. Maybe it is time to start being just a little more careful.  Let&#8217;s see, since April I have had a fall to concrete that was stopped by my head, a rear end collision that damaged my neck, a spider bite that turned to a staph infection requiring surgery, and the shoulder was before all of that.<br \/>\nProbably I will get this surgery, but that will be after I get as much information as possible, after I make an informed decision.  My wife, Carolyn is for me getting the surgery.  This could have some connection to the increased limits on the life insurance, or just because she sees me in agony all the time.  I sure hope it is the latter. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First week of April I popped my right rotator cuff. It hurts pretty much all the time. I have friends that have had the surgery to repair it and their advice is all over the place. People I really trust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/?p=354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanpippenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}