{"id":197,"date":"2008-07-18T22:10:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T03:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/a-moment-of-silence\/"},"modified":"2008-07-18T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T03:10:52","slug":"a-moment-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/a-moment-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Moment of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been a good Internet friend recently.\u00a0 Two nights in a row, now, I have sat here with a blank screen staring me in the face, looking in vain for inspiration to start typing.\u00a0 Nothing happened.\u00a0 I think the problem is at least partly related to the fact that I want to write quite a bit about my fishing trip, but I haven&#8217;t had the available block of time it&#8217;s going to take to mash out a couple of no doubt lengthy entries about my angling adventures;\u00a0 unable to write about my preferred subject, my mind is rebelling and refusing to be distracted from its intended authorial purpose.\u00a0 In this way, I am the literary equivalent of a two-year old child having a screaming fit because somebody switched off the cartoons.\u00a0 Anyway, fear not, I have not abandoned the blog except temporarily;\u00a0 I will write something tomorrow about the fishing trip and no longer will there be any excuse for failure to tippy-tap.<\/p>\n<p>Worse than my failure to blather here, though, is my inability to find anything to say that I feel is worthwhile while reading the work of others. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dearj.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mike<\/a> is a wonder of consistency;\u00a0 every day, without fail, he finds some reflection or insight worth setting out on his site.\u00a0 I have been continuing to read about his exploits, but for the most part, haven&#8217;t even felt the sparkle of inspiration to even come up with a worthwhile comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dog days of summer indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been a good Internet friend recently. Two nights in a row, now, I have sat here with a blank screen staring me in the face, looking in vain for inspiration to start typing. Nothing happened. I think the problem is at least partly related to the fact that I want to write [&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197"}],"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=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}