{"id":1802,"date":"2023-02-27T15:19:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2023-03-31T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:24:48","slug":"surprises-good-and-not-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"surprises good and not so good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On February 2nd Groundhog day I tripped and fell on my right thumb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a serious injury requiring surgical implantation of pins to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">realign the bones to  properly heal.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately the pins are working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seventeen days post surgery, I am out of the splint and into a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fiberglass cast until March 16th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For my most recent meeting with the hand surgeon at Mass General <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brigham,  I decided to ride the elevator to the 2nd floor instead of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">taking the stairs.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> This is what greeted me as the elevator doors opened:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/lotusPools.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/lotusPools.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/lotusPools-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/lotusPools-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My Lotus Pool Triptych.    oil on canvas   30&#215;36 inches each panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I knew it was in the Yawkey Wing, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always wondered where it landed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fate led me to it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 2nd Groundhog day I tripped and fell on my right thumb. It was a serious injury requiring surgical implantation of pins to realign the bones to properly heal. Fortunately the pins are working. Seventeen days post surgery, I am out of the splint and into a fiberglass cast until March 16th. For my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/?p=1802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">surprises good and not so good<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,16,11,9,20,14,24],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contemporaryart","tag-fineart","tag-lindaaholt","tag-lindaholt","tag-lindaholtstudio","tag-oil-paintings","tag-oilpaintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lindaholt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}