{"id":145,"date":"2007-02-08T23:29:41","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T05:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2010-12-25T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T04:29:03","slug":"enjoy-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy the silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if it hasn&#8217;t been abundantly clear, I&#8217;m going through a period in my life where I&#8217;m feeling the need to say very little. My mind is busy with plenty of activities, and while I haven&#8217;t been reading as much as I&#8217;d like (still working on a historical book about WWII), this year (and really the past two months or so) have been spent staying on task pretty well. I&#8217;ve even managed to somewhat stick to my very loose resolution of wasting less time on the internet while I&#8217;m at home in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to this feeling has been a fairly cold snap in the weather that we&#8217;ve been having. The winter as a whole hasn&#8217;t been brutal by any large measure, but we&#8217;ve gotten just enough snow and cold that I&#8217;m especially inclined to want to sit at home in the evenings with dogs on my lap and a glass of wine beside me while I work on writing\/mixing\/etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll snap out of it once the ice falls off my fingertips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if it hasn&#8217;t been abundantly clear, I&#8217;m going through a period in my life where I&#8217;m feeling the need to say very little. My mind is busy with plenty of activities, and while I haven&#8217;t been reading as much as I&#8217;d like (still working on a historical book about WWII), this year (and really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.almostcool.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}