{"id":1817,"date":"2011-11-02T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2011-11-02T20:02:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:02:03","slug":"same-time-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/same-time-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"same time this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this year I finally realized why it is that the month for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowrimo.org\/\">all of those writing stuff in a month<\/a> events is November. It&#8217;s because by November everyone is just too far gone down the rabbit hole of crazy overcommittedness to say no to anything. So when the internet says, &#8220;hey, you, why don&#8217;t you write a novel\/blog\/write an academic book\/etc. every day for a month!&#8221; you&#8217;re all &#8220;well, why the heck not?!&#8221; Because what&#8217;s one more straw when the camel can&#8217;t even feel its back?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously though, I can still feel my back. Sometimes it aches a bit when I&#8217;ve done the <a href=\"http:\/\/msmale.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/2011\/02\/12\/two-legs-to-stand-on\/\">standing desk<\/a> thing all day, which I haven&#8217;t this week because I had a weird one-day cold + fever over the weekend and I&#8217;m trying to make sure that I&#8217;m really recovered by being lazy and sitting all day.<\/p>\n<p>I am insanely busy. The confluence of work stuff plus family stuff (including middle school tours, aiieee!) that&#8217;s all sitting on my plate right now is unbelievable, even to me. I&#8217;m so busy that I haven&#8217;t been doing any of the things I try to do to keep sane + healthy, like get enough sleep, walk to work, and &#8230; write. Every day. Just a little bit, maybe 201 words or so? (Maybe 205.)<\/p>\n<p>So here I am, giving it a go again this year. We&#8217;ll see how far I can make it. 200 words\/day has always been my goal, how hard can that be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this year I finally realized why it is that the month for all of those writing stuff in a month events is November. It&#8217;s because by November everyone is just too far gone down the rabbit hole of crazy overcommittedness to say no to anything. So when the internet says, &#8220;hey, you, why don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,37],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nablopomo","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}