{"id":3720,"date":"2018-08-02T20:49:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T01:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2018-08-02T20:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T01:49:27","slug":"gratitudes-2018-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"Gratitudes 2018, Day 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Fried zucchini. It was an experiment today: dip the slices in egg, then panko crumbs that were mixed with some salt and pepper&#8230; wow. <em>That<\/em> is what was for dinner.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Headphones\/earbuds. I keep myself plugged in at work so I can listen to music and podcasts and I&#8217;ve reached the point of keeping one in all the time while letting the other dangle freely. Sure, people might need to yell to get my attention sometimes when they&#8217;re both in my ears, but it also means I can ignore people (even when there&#8217;s nothing playing) and they won&#8217;t get offended.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Staying awake this morning. Teresa&#8217;s alarm goes off at 4:00am on workdays. I wake up so I can help walk the dogs. Typically, I&#8217;ll go back to bed since I don&#8217;t have to get up for a few hours, but this morning, I stayed up to write the blog entry I posted this morning. Even though I was tired when I left the house, I felt really good.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Writing. It had been a really long time since I&#8217;d written anything. A <em>reeeeeally<\/em> long time. I don&#8217;t remember if there was one particular moment, but I eventually wrote a new blog entry. And then another. And another. And now look at what&#8217;s happened: I&#8217;m writing on a consistent basis and I left the house this morning on a <em>writer&#8217;s<\/em> high.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sleep. And I have some catching up to do tonight, too.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fried zucchini. It was an experiment today: dip the slices in egg, then panko crumbs that were mixed with some salt and pepper&#8230; wow. That is what was for dinner. Headphones\/earbuds. I keep myself plugged in at work so I can listen to music and podcasts and I&#8217;ve reached the point of keeping one in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=3720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gratitudes 2018, Day 9&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[354],"tags":[771],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitudes","tag-gratitude"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-Y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3722,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}