{"id":6028,"date":"2024-04-15T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T04:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2024-04-17T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T04:42:07","slug":"weightlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2024\/04\/15\/weightlifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Weightlifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When he first started pushing barbells, he did it to get his anger out, throwing the weights from his body, stressing his tendons as he exhaled sprays of spit with every red-faced repetition, every sweaty pump. He realized his joints wouldn\u2019t last long hurling metal, so he calmed his approach, traded manic intervals \u2013 of fighting gravity with fury \u2013 for calculated precision, and he\u2019d demonstrate, lying down on a chair with an invisible bar connecting his fists, showing us the proper form of a barbell press, his big forearms and biceps flexing and twisting slowly as his muscles contracted, then extended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Parker Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Parker is a writer and editor living in Highland Park. He is a recent MFA graduate and spends his free time running along the Detroit River. He\u2019s published in Bristol Noir and is a founding editor at DUMBO Press.<\/p>\n<p>Instagram:@parkerreviewsbooks<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he first started pushing barbells, he did it to get his anger out, throwing the weights from his body, stressing his tendons as he exhaled sprays of spit with every red-faced repetition, every sweaty pump. He realized his joints wouldn\u2019t last long hurling metal, so he calmed his approach, traded manic intervals \u2013 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1616,214,12612,12608,12509,1677,2810,2815,11571,5546,3318,5463,41,12611,9612,3953,5963,12606,8731,2783,9200,1322,12610,2312,12607,12609],"class_list":["post-6028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-anger","tag-bar","tag-barbell-press","tag-barbells","tag-biceps","tag-body","tag-chair","tag-fists","tag-forearms","tag-form","tag-fury","tag-gravity","tag-guest-contributor","tag-intervals","tag-joints","tag-metal","tag-muscles","tag-parker-wilson","tag-precision","tag-pump","tag-repetition","tag-spit","tag-sprays","tag-tendons","tag-weightlifting","tag-weights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6029,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}