{"id":20489,"date":"2026-05-31T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=20489"},"modified":"2026-05-31T16:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:10:16","slug":"so-why-not-be-open-to-the-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/31\/so-why-not-be-open-to-the-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"so why not be open to the magic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Rachel Dratch, May 2026. Photo by OK McCausland for The New York Times.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

from the ny times’s “‘debbie downer’ is enjoying an upswing”<\/a> about performer rachel dratch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou\u2019re going to see more magic if you\u2019re open to the magic,\u201d Dratch said. \u201cSo why not be open to the magic?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

also loved this bit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After she left \u201cS.N.L.\u201d in 2006, her career seemed to be slowing down, and she started to panic about her future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd then I sort of decided not to,\u201d Dratch said. Four years later, she gave birth to Eli. Because she wasn\u2019t working as much, she was able to spend quality time with her son while he was young. \u201cIt was a good lesson for me,\u201d she said. \u201cYou just don\u2019t know what\u2019s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of agonizing over her career, which, she said, \u201cjust leads to unhappiness,\u201d Dratch enjoys going out for margaritas and laughing with friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

HELL YEAH (virgin mojitos acceptable sub)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from the ny times’s “‘debbie downer’ is enjoying an upswing” about performer rachel dratch: \u201cYou\u2019re going to see more magic if you\u2019re open to the magic,\u201d Dratch said. \u201cSo why not be open to the magic?\u201d also loved this bit: After she left \u201cS.N.L.\u201d in 2006, her career seemed to be slowing down, and she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-20489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20489"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20509,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20489\/revisions\/20509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}