{"id":3172,"date":"2025-01-20T18:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T02:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2025-01-20T18:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T02:10:51","slug":"life-three-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2025\/01\/20\/life-three-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Life: Three Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-template-default wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mobilelene.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/color-studies-with-oil-pastels-from.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Color studies with oil pastels from Japan\" 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\/AVvXsEhPEpEtp0jki5bUmUnJwbKeww9LPIsmXD1CHNg3siAEc0yb3v4pM08KKDGi78TBG0nwFpPEZW5eppJdIkApf_4yZlRr-76OGUWNpYfXA7y-aI36zQzECL0T3EA7TK54TXXgbAgZ9fiHIamnqwWYh7u3KCxBA6VGyXjviODQjBSJhejSGgi50D1lPQeJNPQ\/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\tColor studies with oil pastels from Japan\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>Long weekends are a TREAT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I managed to stay home ALL THREE DAYS of this particular weekend, though I had friends over, so it was still social. (<em>I APPRECIATE my friends, and realized this week that I have friends who consistently INTERACT WITH ME INSTEAD OF THEIR PHONES.  How great is that?<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have many interests and too little time to pursue them, so holiday weekends can give me stress to DO IT ALL. I have so many projects waiting &#8211; film to scan, drawings to complete, letters to write, websites to update &#8211; but, having a restful day is also important. Accepting that&#8230; is a challenge. Yet, I was able to enjoy minimal chores, fun friends, my new oil pastels, a long Korean comic, and generally moved slowly to better recover from what ailed me more than a week ago and left me with lingering symptoms. So, I know REST is POSSIBLE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hooray for slowing down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long weekends are a TREAT. I managed to stay home ALL THREE DAYS of this particular weekend, though I had friends over, so it was still social. (I APPRECIATE my friends, and realized this week that I have friends who consistently INTERACT WITH ME INSTEAD OF THEIR PHONES. How great is that?) I have many &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2025\/01\/20\/life-three-day-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life: Three Day Weekend&#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":[135,1],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized","tag-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","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=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}