{"id":133,"date":"2007-09-20T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T08:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/?p=133"},"modified":"2007-09-20T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T08:25:20","slug":"being-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/being-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no posts but that&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve been busy. Work and life in general but nothing worth blogging about.<\/p>\n<p>I have however done my 5km event and ended up walking it due to sore joints. Hope this doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m getting all old and unable to do stuff because of bad joints. It was a complete opposite of last year &#8211; I was at the very back this year and didn&#8217;t wear a watch so didn&#8217;t time myself and only ran a very small bit of the course (about the last kilometre). So no idea how long it took so just going for the average walking time of 45 minutes. It was like Oxford Street on a Saturday in December only with everyone going the same direction.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0My <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myactionaid.org.uk\/Kwilliams\/hydro-active-womens-challenge\">sponsorship page <\/a>should be up for another month.<\/p>\n<p>Next week going to see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/stjoan\">St Joan <\/a>at the National Theatre. Hopefully have more to blog about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no posts but that&#8217;s because we&#8217;ve been busy. Work and life in general but nothing worth blogging about. I have however done my 5km event and ended up walking it due to sore joints. Hope this doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m getting all old and unable to do stuff because of bad joints. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":263,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/bank-holiday-weekend\/","url_meta":{"origin":133,"position":0},"title":"Bank Holiday Weekend","date":"Sunday, 24 May 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Gee, we don't post much! Haven't done much. This is a busy year and we haven't done any travelling or anything much of interest. 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