{"id":12925,"date":"2009-07-01T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BrandTwist.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:14:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:14:59","slug":"my-thumb-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/finding-balance\/my-thumb-hurts\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thumb Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8uAPsVQ1eAg\/Sj2loG6XJFI\/AAAAAAAAAQs\/y7-wWQUkdjk\/s1600-h\/thumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 75px; height: 96px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_8uAPsVQ1eAg\/Sj2loG6XJFI\/AAAAAAAAAQs\/y7-wWQUkdjk\/s320\/thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349614040854766674\" \/><\/a><br \/>I stabbed it on something sharp in my purse this morning as I was rushing to get out of the house and make my train.<\/p>\n<p>My purse is a bit of a minefield, so I\u2019m not even sure exactly what the offending object was.<\/p>\n<p>My thumb bled a little bit and now it has a dull ache under the nail which is making it quite hard to type, particularly on my blackberry.<\/p>\n<p>So it hurts\u2026.literally.<\/p>\n<p>But it also hurts\u2026 figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>The constant state at which I (like I am sure many of you) are texting, typing, twittering etc. Is giving me a thumb ache.<\/p>\n<p>It used to be at the end of the day I\u2019d feel my weariness behind my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s my aching thumb.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder about these prehensile digits. Will they really begin to grow to enormous sizes like in that book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Even_Cowgirls_Get_the_Blues_(novel)\">\u201cEven Cowgirls Get the Blues\u201d by Tom Robbins <\/a>.(Loved the book, never saw the movie).<\/p>\n<p>Will we start do thumb exercises on newborns and toddlers to give them a leg up in the 21st century?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s a sign that I need to ease up on my steady digital diet.  <\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it just means I should just be more diligent about cleaning the sharp objects out of my purse.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s my point of view. What\u2019s your twist?<br \/>Do your thumbs ever hurt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stabbed it on something sharp in my purse this morning as I was rushing to get out of the house and make my train. My purse is a bit of a minefield, so I\u2019m not even sure exactly what the offending object was. My thumb bled a little bit and now it has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-finding-balance"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16670,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12925\/revisions\/16670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandtwist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}