{"id":35414,"date":"2026-07-03T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35414"},"modified":"2026-07-03T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:24:38","slug":"the-pop-pop-schtick-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/03\/the-pop-pop-schtick-will-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pop Pop Schtick Will Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, gentle reader, if you&#8217;re getting tired of the Pop Pop schtick, but&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Today at my second BJJ class of the day, which featured more advanced belts than white belts and focused on a variety of escapes that involved explosively folding your body in half, I received the &#8220;Bless your heart, do the best you can, old man&#8221; from the instructor who I think said he is only a couple years younger than I am.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/mattdamon.gif\"><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, please remind me in a couple of days that I am not actually coming down with a stomach virus.  Any time I have a good ab workout (which, clearly, is <em>not often enough<\/em>), the stiffness\/soreness makes me think I&#8217;m getting sick instead of stronger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, gentle reader, if you&#8217;re getting tired of the Pop Pop schtick, but&#8230;. Today at my second BJJ class of the day, which featured more advanced belts than white belts and focused on a variety of escapes that involved explosively folding your body in half, I received the &#8220;Bless your heart, do the best you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35415,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35414\/revisions\/35415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}