{"id":2007,"date":"2019-03-02T13:44:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2019-03-02T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T18:44:28","slug":"personal-well-its-been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=2007","title":{"rendered":"(personal) Well, it&#8217;s been a while"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"478\" height=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"948\" data-link=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?attachment_id=948\" class=\"wp-image-948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking.jpg 478w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/positive-thinking-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been doing much in the blogging way for a while, simply because I didn&#8217;t feel I had that much to say. I&#8217;m surviving. I&#8217;m writing in bits and pieces lately, mostly snippets of poetry that I&#8217;ve been posting to my Facebook page. I&#8217;ve never really considered myself a poet, but that&#8217;s where my writing is going lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m still working on the Advent story for 2018, and I&#8217;m going to finish it. Then there will be a break from Advent for a while. There are other stories that I think I might finally be ready to write.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sewing a lot, though. I&#8217;m crocheting and hand-sewing and cross-stitching, and making garb (finally). My mother used to threaten to take scissors to my garb at the next event she saw me at in my old garb, so I&#8217;d have to make new garb. I think she&#8217;d be proud that I&#8217;m finally getting off my old crutch of pirate shirts and skirts, and venturing into new garb territory. There will be pictures later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also getting ready to start my second Whole30 round on Monday, so today is getting my meal plan together so I can cook tomorrow afternoon. The sad thing is that I&#8217;m really tired today, and I&#8217;ve got a Mardi Gras party tonight, and so I&#8217;m really just not wanting to do anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yeah, that&#8217;s the state of the Val right now. I&#8217;m going to be working on some more things coming up in the spring, but I wanted to let people know I wasn&#8217;t quite dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been doing much in the blogging way for a while, simply because I didn&#8217;t feel I had that much to say. I&#8217;m surviving. I&#8217;m writing in bits and pieces lately, mostly snippets of poetry that I&#8217;ve been posting to my Facebook page. I&#8217;ve never really considered myself a poet, but that&#8217;s where my &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=2007\">>>Read more<\/a><\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007"}],"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=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}