{"id":1632,"date":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draumrpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2008-07-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T04:00:00","slug":"given-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/2008\/07\/24\/given-to-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Given to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s amazing how time passes.  On a Monday, you can&#39;t wait for Friday.  On Sunday, you so desperately want Monday to wait a few days &#8211; even if you love your work, sometimes&#8230;you need that weekend.  Refreshment for mind and body and soul.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I get to sleep in, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve still had my head crammed in the server &#8211; figuratively, not literally, because the server is off at it&#39;s colo center and I don&#39;t visit it in person terribly often &#8211; and seem to have missed the fact that:<\/p>\n<p>A) it has been a month since I have posted, and, <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridaallen.com\/forums\/style_emoticons\/<#EMO_DIR#>\/cool.gif&#8221; style=&#8221;vertical-align:middle&#8221; emoid=&#8221;B)&#8221; border=&#8221;0&#8243; alt=&#8221;cool.gif&#8221; \/> I really did start writing something a week ago&#33;<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s hard to exist in two worlds.  So, given my penchant for always making things harder on myself than they need to be, I live in like six.  Sometimes I can multitask well and juggle them all; sometimes, not so much, and a ball goes astray and bounces down, down, and I have to go diving for it before it hits Bailey (she would never lower herself to fetching a BALL) causing her to glare at me from removing her from some remarkably nice dream where she has countless rabbits to chase and hordes of nicely roasted chicken to eat &#8211; freshly dropped directly in front of her, of course.<\/p>\n<p>We all have that dream.  Although I substitute &quot;new toy soldiers&quot; for rabbits and &quot;pizza&quot; for chicken, typically.<\/p>\n<p>Right.  So that&#39;s the score.  Still alive, having a busy summer &#8211; this is the real world, kids&#33; &#8211; and, um, really need to get back to that story I started&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheesh.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s amazing how time passes.  On a Monday, you can&#39;t wait for Friday.  On Sunday, you so desperately want Monday to wait a few days &#8211; even if you love your work, sometimes&#8230;you need that weekend.  Refreshment for mind and body and soul.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I get to sleep in, sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve still had my head crammed in the server -&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}