{"id":7125,"date":"2012-07-23T09:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2012-07-23T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T15:12:03","slug":"july-23-2012-taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=7125","title":{"rendered":"July 23, 2012 Taking a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided to try taking a break from writing and posting for a week or so. I&#8217;m considering it a mental vacation of sorts. I&#8217;m not sure how it will work as I&#8217;m always thinking and I enjoy writing. Even now my fingers are getting that itch to type something and my mind is swirling with thoughts and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>A friend suggested I step away just to refresh and renew. We take vacations from work and the daily grind; why not take one from the writing process? So that should explain why there will be no posts for the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>It will certainly be a challenge for me to train myself to clear my thoughts of writing and posting. And I know if I get a story idea I will need to jot it down or risk losing it. But in the end I think it will be a good thing. So thanks for being understanding.<\/p>\n<p>I hope your summer is going well. It has been hot here and the apartment pool has seen a lot of activity by all my fellow renters and their kids. I&#8217;ve been staying cool and have been getting some exercise by walking and pedaling my exercycle. I&#8217;ve also been keeping track of my blood pressure and it seems to be ok.<\/p>\n<p>Fall is rushing toward us; the days just fly by. Life can get quite hectic. But despite your busy schedule you chose to stop by and check on my site for a few minutes and I really appreciate that. I hope you all have a really good summer and make a lot of enjoyable, lasting memories&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve decided to try taking a break from writing and posting for a week or so. I&#8217;m considering it a mental vacation of sorts. I&#8217;m not sure how it will work as I&#8217;m always thinking and I enjoy writing. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=7125\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7130,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/7130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}