{"id":1687,"date":"2013-01-02T02:06:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/2013the-year-we-remake-contact\/"},"modified":"2013-01-02T02:06:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:06:36","slug":"2013the-year-we-remake-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/02\/2013the-year-we-remake-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"2013:The Year We (Re)Make Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130102-010612.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/20130102-010612.jpg\" alt=\"20130102-010612.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am trying to make myself spend some more time on things that aren&#8217;t work;  you know, things that I enjoy and things that make life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>One of those things is writing on this blog.  I do like it, it makes me feel good.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of those things is playing music.  I hope to do more of that with this new guitar that I got for Christmas from Spouse.  My whole outlook has gotten considerably more rockabilly since I opened it up &#8211; it&#8217;s a hollow body archtop &#8211; I think I might grow long sideburns and a ducktail.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, been desperately trying to grab ten minutes here and there to practice between The Boy&#8217;s naps and meals and diaper changes (he&#8217;s been home from daycare during most of the holidays). It&#8217;s hard to get into any serious effort to learn a song, or even a riff or a new technique in those quick stolen moments.  But I vow to keep trying;  I&#8217;m working on &#8220;Having an Average Weekend&#8221; by Shadowy Men From a Shadowy Planet at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s gem from The Boy: Spouse had made cookies and The Boy was aggressively sampling.  At one point, he had learned to just liberate cookies from the counter and start eating, a development that was interdicted by Spouse, asking him, &#8220;Just how many more of those things are you going to eat, anyhow?&#8221;  He thought for a few seconds and said confidently, &#8220;Three of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Am trying to make myself spend some more time on things that aren&#8217;t work; you know, things that I enjoy and things that make life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>One of those things is writing on this blog. I do like it, it makes me feel good.<\/p>\n<p>Another one of those things is playing music. I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}