{"id":1485,"date":"2015-06-10T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2015-06-10T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T16:19:08","slug":"trials-and-tribulations-or-why-cant-val-update-a-blog-on-a-regular-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1485","title":{"rendered":"Trials and Tribulations, or why can&#8217;t Val update a blog on a regular basis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, this could be titled &#8220;Why can&#8217;t Val do anything on a regular basis?&#8221; I seem to have issues with regularity, and I wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It could be that somewhere in my dim, distant past, something linked &#8220;a regular routine&#8221; with &#8220;boring&#8221; and I HATE boring with a fiery passion. And yes, I know that routine doesn&#8217;t have to be boring. I just don&#8217;t seem to be able to stick with it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, I am not a quitter, and so I&#8217;m trying again. With some differences, of course &#8211; if it hasn&#8217;t worked before, why would I try the same thing? Also, see boring, above. This time, I&#8217;m leaving my laptop at the studio, forcing myself to go in. And I&#8217;ll be doing my blog updates at the same time as my writing &#8211; they may not be long, but dammit, I&#8217;m going to update! Starting today.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on the tail-end of pneumonia (yeah, in the summer. I&#8217;m talented, what can I say?), and I&#8217;m coming off a low that is partly sickness, partly sadness, and partly frustration. My new goal is 250 words a day. I&#8217;m on the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/11beV_7G1fAYs3d2QTztimAT8b9CG1P3_7eCAJNSF_jA\/edit\" target=\"_blank\">Magic Spreadsheet<\/a> again, and I&#8217;ve got a couple of projects that I&#8217;m working on. I have an editor for\u00a0<em>Winter&#8217;s Secrets<\/em>, and one of the projects in the queue is the wedding of the summer &#8211; Molly and Drew are getting married on July 25, and they hope you&#8217;ll be there for it! There&#8217;s a 6-day Summer Advent story that will be going on, and there will be at least one prize (come on, you want one of their wedding favors, don&#8217;t you?), so keep a look out for that!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;ve got a lot to do today, so off to the word mines!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, this could be titled &#8220;Why can&#8217;t Val do anything on a regular basis?&#8221; I seem to have issues with regularity, and I wonder why. &nbsp; It could be that somewhere in my dim, distant past, something linked &#8220;a regular routine&#8221; with &#8220;boring&#8221; and I HATE boring with a fiery passion. And yes, I &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=1485\">>>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,41,3,12,54,18,22],"tags":[61,67,78,7,56,60,55,66],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advent","category-goals","category-health","category-metrics","category-personal","category-time-management","category-to-do","category-writing","tag-advent","tag-goals","tag-health","tag-life","tag-metrics","tag-personal","tag-time-management","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}