{"id":95,"date":"2009-05-17T17:32:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-05-17T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T00:32:10","slug":"a-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-return\/","title":{"rendered":"A return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I have been struggling with this year, actually for a little more than a year, actually, is writing regularly.<\/p>\n<p>I think that I attended my writing group twice in 2009. I used to go religiously. I need to give myself a good, firm kick in the pants with sharp, pointy shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of writing, I finished making the ice cream I started yesterday. I went to work for a few hours. I bought some herbs. I wasted time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. I drank a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chow.com\/recipes\/10255\" target=\"_blank\">gin gimlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I came back here and these few words are progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I have been struggling with this year, actually for a little more than a year, actually, is writing regularly. I think that I attended my writing group twice in 2009. I used to go religiously. I need to give myself a good, firm kick in the pants with sharp, pointy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/a-return\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A return<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/meeting-black-authors\/","url_meta":{"origin":95,"position":0},"title":"Meeting black authors","author":"admin","date":"December 22, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone from my writing group, uh, the group I was going to when I was writing regularly, linked to a blog, White Readers Meet Black Authors. 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