{"id":180132,"date":"2010-01-14T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/47622-calves-as-injection-site.html"},"modified":"2010-01-14T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T16:55:55","slug":"calves-as-injection-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180132","title":{"rendered":"Calves as injection site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I keep forgetting to post this: I&#8217;ve been using the back of my calves for a few weeks for boluses and it&#8217;s been a fantastic new site! I seem to be able to get away with short needles here no problem (in my belly etc short needles cause big lumps). Could probably skip this, but I do I tend to slightly raise the area in a half pinch, if I feel the muscle may be a little close.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure many out there do use calves, but it is new to me, and it&#8217;s turning out to be a great site, with dependable action.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep forgetting to post this: I&#8217;ve been using the back of my calves for a few weeks for boluses and it&#8217;s been a fantastic new site! I seem to be able to get away with short needles here no problem (in my belly etc short needles cause big lumps). Could probably skip this, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2960,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2960"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}