{"id":1519,"date":"2012-05-23T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2012-05-23T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:00:27","slug":"schools-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer break doesn&#8217;t look quite the same from the point of view of the mom. With my son in kindergarten and my daughter in pre-school, I had half a day, every day, with no interruptions. Ahhhhh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re home with me all day. Ahhhhh!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, they&#8217;re good kids. And thanks to imposed quiet times, I&#8217;m still writing a couple of hours a day. (I&#8217;d go crazy if I didn&#8217;t.) <\/p>\n<p>It is an interesting truth, however; that the less time I have to write, the more I get busy when I finally do have time. I sat down at 1:00 this afternoon, knowing I had until 2:30, and my fingers flew. I&#8217;m not saying I got as much done as I can in 3-4 hours, but progress is being made. <\/p>\n<p>Goes to show, you don&#8217;t need a lot of time to write, you just need to get busy with the time you have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer break doesn&#8217;t look quite the same from the point of view of the mom. With my son in kindergarten and my daughter in pre-school, I had half a day, every day, with no interruptions. Ahhhhh&#8230;. Now they&#8217;re home with me all day. Ahhhhh!!!! Luckily, they&#8217;re good kids. And thanks to imposed quiet times, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chitchat","category-tips-for-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}