{"id":2045,"date":"2021-02-24T14:07:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:07:35","slug":"coming-out-of-covid-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=2045","title":{"rendered":"Coming out of Covid sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;s been since I&#8217;ve been here &#8211; a long time. But Covid has left me isolated and feeling too&#8230;off to write. And let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t just Covid. It was the entire world sort of falling apart on me for a while. I retreated into myself. I worked on fiber crafts, I colored, I did a lot of thinking. A lot of thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s nearly March, and Spring is coming back into the northern hemisphere, and I&#8217;m finally, finally ready to pick up my writing again. I&#8217;ve pulled up the file with <em>Belladonna Dreams<\/em> in it and read it through, and I can feel the words starting to prickle through my fingertips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I think today, I&#8217;ll grab my notebook and a pen, and drive somewhere to park and write. My new goal is 250 words a day. They don&#8217;t have to be good words. They just have to be words. It&#8217;s hard to edit a blank page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how long it&#8217;s been since I&#8217;ve been here &#8211; a long time. But Covid has left me isolated and feeling too&#8230;off to write. And let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; it wasn&#8217;t just Covid. It was the entire world sort of falling apart on me for a while. I retreated into myself. I worked &#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/?p=2045\">>>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-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045"}],"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=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2046,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions\/2046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vg-ford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}