{"id":842,"date":"2020-10-04T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T20:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=842"},"modified":"2020-10-04T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T20:40:51","slug":"the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"The Waiting is the hardest part"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have wasted so much time waiting. Waiting for people. Waiting for doctors. Waiting for medical procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting, waiting, waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Usually I read books or listen to podcasts, or I used to write while waiting. This is the kind of of waiting where you could be interrupted at any time, so your mind is half-expecting to be interrupted. So you can&#8217;t &#8220;get into&#8221; anything. I&#8217;m so sick and tired of waiting. Waiting for the muse. Waiting for certain people to do things with or for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If there&#8217;s such a thing as &#8220;active waiting&#8221;, that is, doing the things I really want to do while waiting until people get their act together. I will carry the book with me everywhere I go (at least in my phone) and read while I wait. No more staring out into space, waiting. Planning my next novel. Planning my next read. Rehashing what&#8217;s in my cards for the day. Yep, no more pointless waiting on people or things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have wasted so much time waiting. Waiting for people. Waiting for doctors. Waiting for medical procedures. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Usually I read books or listen to podcasts, or I used to write while waiting. This is the kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/?p=842\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grimaulkin.com\/ljacob-today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}