{"id":660,"date":"2006-10-21T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/life_is_interfe"},"modified":"2006-10-21T08:29:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T12:29:56","slug":"life_is_interfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Life is interfering with blogging &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for keeping the place going while I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with life. I appreciate your dropping by and commenting, even if I am not posting as much as I did earlier. My lack of blogging is due to a lack of time, not a lack of things to blog about. Life here in Floyd is going on at full tilt and we are right in the thick of the action.<\/p>\n<p>I have not watched TV for many months which was no big loss, but not having time to read weblogs leaves me feeling cut off from life. I have a full-time job keeping up with my email traffic, preparing the house for winter and managing an increasing volume of activities at the Jacksonville Center for the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself driving down country roads with all sorts of insights bubbling up and no time to jot them down. By the time I get to my destination, I plunge into chores or a pile of overdue tasks and my posts get pushed off for a more propitious moment.<\/p>\n<p>I have more than a dozen interviews of artists and musicians in my backlog and have hundreds of photos and video clips to post so there is no lack of material. I even have some ideas to share on getting more enjoyment out of life. I hope I will be able to catch up during the long winter months when things are supposed to slow down. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for keeping the place going while I&#8217;ve been preoccupied with life. I appreciate your dropping by and commenting, even if I am not posting as much as I did earlier. My lack of blogging is due to a lack &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=660\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1801],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-aE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}