{"id":309,"date":"2015-10-13T02:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2015-10-13T02:11:41","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T02:11:41","slug":"i-took-the-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"I Took the Day Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided not to write today even though\u00a0I had several ideas swirling around in my head.\u00a0 I even had a couple of my kids suggest things for me to write.\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I just needed a break.<\/p>\n<p>I really do love writing and have enjoyed being pushed to write more with this challenge.\u00a0 Writing is a way for me to be creative and process life.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a way for me to share what God shows me in the mundane things.\u00a0 And it gives me a sense of purpose.\u00a0 But it can take a lot out of me.\u00a0 And the rigors of sharing a part of my heart every day, along with living life, have made me tired.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I thought I would be mad at myself for not writing.\u00a0 After all, I am taking part in a challenge.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t want to loose.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not mad or disappointed.\u00a0 I&#8217;m actually proud of myself.\u00a0 I needed the break and I took it.\u00a0 I took care of myself instead of worrying about pleasing others or keeping up appearances.<\/p>\n<p>So if I took the day off, why are you reading this?\u00a0 Because I&#8217;m a writer and had to tell someone&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided not to write today even though\u00a0I had several ideas swirling around in my head.\u00a0 I even had a couple of my kids suggest things for me to write.\u00a0 But I didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 I just needed a break. I really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/?p=309\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.karen-gustafson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}