{"id":3140,"date":"2024-12-27T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2024-12-27T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T22:55:16","slug":"life-trying-to-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/27\/life-trying-to-slow-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: Trying to Slow Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-template-default wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mobilelene.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/loving-dome.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Loving the Dome\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a>\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-image-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-image\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgjSyGFx-oVJxcUZsTWweBDu_5Qaqwdqxjoe5fQoxKxI7rf5GRhXNpMekRaSyseIDPt1LOfppb6lVEWYWj9iM0xmfc7VQ42Ew5SIK4mXqHtZmPMcPprUAMPmWiYQLfAe2iESHEzJXMsbiUdGZV-7V_vMME-Z1ert4mcyW-JxegHFI7wDtApih3pt0drbXc\/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu\/final.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 700px; max-height: 700px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-text-container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-title\">\n\t\t\tLoving the Dome\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"vlp-link-summary\">\n\t\t\tWeblog by A. Elizabeth Graves. iPhone photography and links to science-y and foodie topics.\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What I want to do: write long letters by hand with fancy inks, and perhaps show off some of those inks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What my writing arm wants me to do: <strong>NONE OF THAT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post brought to you by: ice (the frozen water) and Biofreeze, which are glorious relief for swelling when combined! Thank you, physical therapist, for introducing this combination to me!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to stay home for an in-person delivery today AND the weather is flat and gray.  These two conditions moderated my impulses to run around frantically, trying to achieve a year&#8217;s worth of projects in a brief holiday break.  But I still feel like a firefighter who should be firefighting?  There&#8217;s plenty of that waiting for me at work when I return next week, but&#8230;  but&#8230;  Downshifting is easier when I&#8217;m traveling, as there are only travel-related things I can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is something a bubble bath can fix, I think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I want to do: write long letters by hand with fancy inks, and perhaps show off some of those inks. What my writing arm wants me to do: NONE OF THAT. This post brought to you by: ice (the frozen water) and Biofreeze, which are glorious relief for swelling when combined! Thank you, physical &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/12\/27\/life-trying-to-slow-down\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life: Trying to Slow Down&#8221;<\/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":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[100,170],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-holiday","tag-rest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}