{"id":1595,"date":"2011-05-10T22:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2011-05-10T22:57:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T06:57:01","slug":"a-long-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2011\/05\/10\/a-long-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"A long spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 6am today, anxious to get to work and meet with my boss. I&#8217;ve lost count at the false starts I&#8217;ve made at trying to set things in order. I don&#8217;t consider the false starts my fault, up until perhaps the point where I&#8217;ve been punched so many times I don&#8217;t have the drive to try again until I spend some time back in my corner. It&#8217;s been a good week or two, so I was up for it.<\/p>\n<p>Except that I didn&#8217;t need to be in the office until 9am. At a regular pace it&#8217;s a half hour to get ready and another half hour to bike to work. That gave me two hours to create an Alaska motorcycle trip itinerary and send it off to a couple of friends for perusal.<\/p>\n<p>The morning felt successful, I had a solid approved direction. Those in my corner, helping me out, were also excited. Unrelated meetings were had, and throughout the day I kept pretty busy. At the end of the day I was still pushing forward alone, and when I tried to connect ran right into another wall.<\/p>\n<p>I came home and took a nap. Then I got Facebook to find me some plans for the evening. K was working late, told her husband I was stealing her and off we went for meal. This helped put the evening back on track. Tomorrow maybe I&#8217;ll forget trying to lead change and do some plain old work again.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, M wrote about thoughts that immediately touched home. Reading her blog and the hectic day at work drove to walk down to the pier for a coffee and some time with the smell of the ocean. Is it really still only Tuesday?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 6am today, anxious to get to work and meet with my boss. I&#8217;ve lost count at the false starts I&#8217;ve made at trying to set things in order. I don&#8217;t consider the false starts my fault, up until perhaps the point where I&#8217;ve been punched so many times I don&#8217;t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}