{"id":751,"date":"2006-12-02T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/751\/"},"modified":"2006-12-03T01:47:27","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T05:47:27","slug":"something-to-write-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/something-to-write-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to write about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that I can always think of things to write about when I&#8217;m not near a computer?<\/p>\n<p>The world misses so much because I can&#8217;t blog mentally from the car or the shower (ha ha, you laugh).   I don&#8217;t know what it is; or maybe I do: it&#8217;s the lack of distraction in those places.  I&#8217;ve rarely got time to just sit and think when I&#8217;m at home or at work, there&#8217;s always something going on that is pulling my attention toward it.   And somehow those mental compositions melt away like dreams by the time I get back to a computer.<\/p>\n<p>I do notice that I never did write about my last trip to Pittsburgh or Thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving was pretty much a non-event: Bob and I drove out on Wednesday and stayed in a lovely hotel courtesy of FRU, then went over to grandma&#8217;s the next morning.  The whole lot of us went out to the same buffet we&#8217;d visited last year, and then we spent the afternoon camped out in the living room, playing a board game and playing any number of mental games stemming from the presence of my cousin&#8217;s toddler.  Finally, the traditional movie and then home.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh had more action, so will require its own entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is it that I can always think of things to write about when I&#8217;m not near a computer? The world misses so much because I can&#8217;t blog mentally from the car or the shower (ha ha, you laugh). I don&#8217;t know what it is; or maybe I do: it&#8217;s the lack of distraction in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,17,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}