{"id":8902,"date":"2011-10-06T09:11:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2011-10-06T09:11:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T08:11:23","slug":"matching-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/matching-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Matching Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it helps if your feet match fairly well. It&#8217;s not essential, but it doesn&#8217;t do too much harm. Mine had been a little uneven for a while. My right big toe had most of its toenail missing for some reason and my left ankle had been sore and a little swollen since I <a title=\"Exercise - It's not good for you!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/excerise-its-not-good-for-you\/\">tore some ligaments<\/a> in it a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry though, I put all that to rights yesterday whilst out windsurfing and <a title=\"The Joys of Being Poor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/the-joys-of-being-poor\/\">enjoying my time as a pauper<\/a>. First of all I managed to smash my right foot against the fin on my board. It didn&#8217;t feel too bad at the time, just a little sore. Next, I managed to lose most of the toenail from my big toe on my left foot. I&#8217;m not sure how this happened, but half of it has gone and the other half isn&#8217;t too happy either.<\/p>\n<p>The knock to my foot didn&#8217;t get any better. It soon swelled up pretty badly and before long I was unable to walk on it. It still hurts this morning, so much so that I won&#8217;t be out enjoying the winds today or going for my planned run. Oh well, at least I have matching feet now, with two sore ankles and toenails missing from both of my big toes.<\/p>\n<p>And now an apology, as you are now going to have to see a photo of my feet and their missing big toenails&#8230; Sorry!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8903\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"My matching feet with missing big toenails\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/feet.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8903\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8903 \" title=\"feet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/feet-400x278.jpg\" alt=\"Matching Feet\" width=\"400\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/feet-400x278.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/feet-120x83.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/feet.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matching Feet<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it helps if your feet match fairly well. It&#8217;s not essential, but it doesn&#8217;t do too much harm. Mine had been a little uneven for a while. My right big toe had most of its toenail missing for some reason and my left ankle had been sore and a little swollen since I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1312,"featured_media":8903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matching Feet - A Simple Life of Luxury<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/10\/matching-feet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matching Feet - A Simple Life of Luxury\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I guess it helps if your feet match fairly well. 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