{"id":5800,"date":"2016-02-13T18:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=5800"},"modified":"2016-03-06T16:15:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T16:15:03","slug":"a-sweet-pinch-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/a-sweet-pinch-of-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sweet Pinch of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, I keep thinking if I\u00a0pinch myself and I will wake up and find out this has all been a really good dream. \u00a0Definitely not a bad dream. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been teaching\u00a0for a long time and I still get chills when a whole new group of students show up in class and end with such glee in their faces and\u00a0joy in their eyes. \u00a0And, it happened again this morning, with four brand new students. \u00a0Sweet!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also the day I have set aside to pull together my thoughts and answers to the questions posed by an interview\u00a0for a\u00a0magazine. \u00a0I am proud to\u00a0find a master teacher, whom I value, has recommended me as a part of the conversation. \u00a0Yes, I was pinching myself all week on that one too. \u00a0More details on that as it unfolds &#8211; later.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5808 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.27.25-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-02-13 at 1.27.25 PM\" width=\"314\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.27.25-PM.png 314w, https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.27.25-PM-300x251.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/>Back to my Beginner students<\/strong>. \u00a0You know it is reality when the one regular student in the room, sounds and looks like a commercial for the class; touting the benefits she has experienced, supporting the others with her own memories of &#8220;her first time,&#8221; and repeating the mantra of &#8220;after 10 sessions&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Not a dream.<\/p>\n<p>So after my own workout, I came back and ate a brownie! \u00a0A little one. \u00a0A sweet pinch of chocolate.\u00a0It&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Weekend. \u00a0The reality is I have chocolate all over the place!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funny, I keep thinking if I\u00a0pinch myself and I will wake up and find out this has all been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,9],"tags":[79,81,78,42],"class_list":["post-5800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-58thyear","category-the-scoop","tag-pilatesinstructor","tag-pilatesmakesyoumove","tag-pilatesteacher","tag-pilates4fitness"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM-200x200.png","medium":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM-300x197.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM-768x504.png","large":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM.png","1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM.png","2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM.png","uncode_woocommerce_nav_thumbnail_regular":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM.png","uncode_woocommerce_nav_thumbnail_crop":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-02-13-at-1.17.08-PM.png"},"post_author":"Gina Jackson","assigned_categories":"58thYear, The Scoop","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5800\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}