{"id":1155,"date":"2010-01-05T11:37:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2010\/01\/being-a-princess-is-hard-running-is-harder.html"},"modified":"2010-01-05T11:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T11:37:35","slug":"being-a-princess-is-hard-running-is-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/theirbadmother\/2010\/01\/being-a-princess-is-hard-running-is-harder.html","title":{"rendered":"Being A Princess Is Hard. Running Is Harder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So. Last month <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/theirbadmother\/2009\/12\/ill-do-anything-for-a-tiara.html\">I started training for the Tiarathon<\/a>, a half-marathon that will take place in March, two months from now, give or take. I managed about a week and a half of training and then I got sick.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still sick.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t run in a week. I can&#8217;t run; my ears are infected and I have vertigo which makes walking without falling over a challenge, never mind running on ice-slicked sidewalks. That, and the snot and the coughing and the fever and this training thing just isn&#8217;t happening right now.<\/p>\n<p>All I can do is hope that this passes, fast, and that toddler-hoisting and vigorous toe-wiggling suffice to keep me from back-sliding completely. Or that fairy-wings and a tiara really will give me magical powers of flight come March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So. Last month I started training for the Tiarathon, a half-marathon that will take place in March, two months from now, give or take. I managed about a week and a half of training and then I got sick. I&#8217;m still sick. I haven&#8217;t run in a week. 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