{"id":2560,"date":"2009-11-23T19:56:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2009-11-23T19:56:18","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:56:18","slug":"on-momentary-life-lulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2560","title":{"rendered":"On Momentary Life Lulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am feeling bereft of excitement or interest in my life at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>This happens.  We all reach lulls in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not feeling particularly creative at the moment.  I have no great political insights or opinions to share.  I&#8217;ve read some comic books recently, but I can&#8217;t be arsed to write about them.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, this happens.  I blame the sinus headache or the sneezes or the general dreariness that was Baltimore today.<\/p>\n<p>But something of interest <i>did<\/i> happen today.<\/p>\n<p>I started living in 2010.  The Year We Make Contact.<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe not that last part.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing copy for the January catalog today.<\/p>\n<p>Secret word!  Secret word!<\/p>\n<p>Well, not <i>today<\/i>. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>After watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zXnV1UNbTuM\"><i>2001: A Who Odyssey<\/i><\/a> for the fifteenth or sixteenth time today, after making a joke about <i>2010: The Year We Make Contact<\/i>, I now feel like rereading <i>2010: Odyssey Two<\/i> and <i>2061: Odyssey Three<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe life isn&#8217;t as unexciting as I thought!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s in a bit of a lull at the moment.  This will pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4093,396],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-life","tag-silly","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}