{"id":1278,"date":"2011-12-08T20:05:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2011-12-08T20:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T01:05:49","slug":"goal-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/goal-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSo, as most people who know me know, I have been working on a project to read a biography of each US President. The original goal was to do it within the year when I set the goal. I got off to a respectable start, but then I stalled out. I chose too many of the presidents in which I had burning interest in the beginning and then was left with swaths of president that just didn’t move me. But then I caught a cold and watched a documentary on President Johnson, Lyndon, not Andrew, and my passion was reignited. So when I set birthday goals this year, I decided that I wanted to make a certain amount of progress on Project President and assigned myself to read biographies on \u00a0Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, James Buchanan,\u00a0Andrew Johnson,\u00a0Calvin Coolidge, and\u00a0Herbert Hoover. Mission accomplished. I even threw Franklin Pierce in there just for thrills\u00a0I am now much, much closer to my goal of reading a biography about each President, which is giving me the inspiration and information I need for Project Presidential Poems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I love crossing things off of lists! Makes me happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, as most people who know me know, I have been working on a project to read a biography of each US President. The original goal was to do it within the year when I set the goal. I got off to a respectable start, but then I stalled out. 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