{"id":194,"date":"2004-07-19T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=194"},"modified":"2004-07-19T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T11:45:16","slug":"dry_spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Dry spell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back. It was never my intention to abandon blogging for such a prolonged period, but other things got in the way. During May, my spare time pretty much vanished for reasons related to my sprained ankle (a story I <a href=\"\/blog\/2004\/06\/falling_down.html\">started to tell<\/a> here, but never finished). In June, my involvement in the play <em>Smokey Joe&#8217;s Cafe<\/em> had a similar effect. During the first part of July, it was my job: the Project from Hell, which I had been working on since last fall, suddenly demanded a lot of extra hours.<br \/>\nBut that&#8217;s finally over. My ankle is mostly healed, <em>Smokey Joe&#8217;s Cafe<\/em> is over, and I&#8217;m finished with the Project from Hell. If anyone is still reading this, I thank you for your patience. Actual posting of new material will resume shortly.<br \/>\nAt least I&#8217;m in good company. It appears that none of the <a href=\"http:\/\/gnocentral.org\">GNO blogs<\/a> have been updated more than once or twice in the past month, except for those of my teenage offspring. <a href=\"http:\/\/hobershort.wordpress.com\/\">Ben<\/a>, of course, has been consistently putting us all to shame for a long time with his frequent and thought-provoking posts. He even had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/tos\/single\/7161\/\">moment in the spotlight<\/a> recently when he wrote an essay that reduced Kim du Toit to tears. And Ruth, whose blog has been silent for months, has suddenly become talkative again. I hope it lasts this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was never my intention to abandon blogging for such a prolonged period, but other things got in the way.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/?p=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patberry.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}