{"id":811,"date":"2005-08-12T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T23:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/archives\/811"},"modified":"2005-08-12T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T23:33:08","slug":"summer-writing-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/811","title":{"rendered":"Summer writing and change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is not conducive to blog-writing, at least among some of my friends.  It may be that we&#8217;re too busy enjoying the nice weather.  It is easier to convince oneself that there is nothing to do when there is 3 feet of snow on the ground, so sitting in front of a computer is actually productive.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the week got away from me.  Reconnection with high school friends and the comfort of the suburbs (I <i>love<\/i> not having to search for parking!), sewing (I made a skirt), spending time with friends, getting ice cream and cheese fries at the local shops, biking, and reading.   <\/p>\n<p>I look up to realize that we have reached the halfway point of August, and things are heating up.  School starting, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlakebahaiconference.org\/\">Greenlake conference<\/a>, my birthday (whee!), and a dozen other projects, events, and plans.  I&#8217;m excited.  <\/p>\n<p>I also realize that these things all signify changes.  This is my last semester of school.  The weather will become hostile to bike-riding and the beach.  Back-porch chats will be moved to the living room.  I start the job hunt in earnest.  Friends are getting married, moving, or starting new phases in their lives, a whirlwind of activity that I watch with some bemusement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is not conducive to blog-writing, at least among some of my friends. It may be that we&#8217;re too busy enjoying the nice weather. It is easier to convince oneself that there is nothing to do when there is 3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}