{"id":774,"date":"2019-09-15T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T15:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=774"},"modified":"2019-09-15T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T15:23:46","slug":"a-side-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"A side track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I know this is a blog about writing, but I need to take a moment to let you know something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m starting dialysis Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m waffling between &#8220;This is a death sentence&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m going to fight like the dickens and live a long life with this.&#8221; 15 hours a week at a dialysis center, and working 40 hours a week won&#8217;t leave me much time for fun and games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, on the bright side, I&#8217;ll have time to write. Somewhere I have a Bluetooth keyboard and I can hopefully type using my iPad. I&#8217;m working on the next novel, the sci-fi one I explained in the previous blog. I&#8217;m doing it in Word this time around, not Scrivener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll have time to read, to listen to audiobooks and podcasts, and do fill-it-ins (they&#8217;re like crossword puzzles but you&#8217;re given the word and have to fit it in puzzle). If I had a laptop I would probably game, but I don&#8217;t have one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also have time to pester people, do my calls and emails. Go ahead, tell me my on hold time is an hour. I&#8217;ll wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this is a blog about writing, but I need to take a moment to let you know something. I&#8217;m starting dialysis Monday. I&#8217;m waffling between &#8220;This is a death sentence&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m going to fight like the dickens &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=774\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-sucks","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}