{"id":9439,"date":"2015-05-04T21:25:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=9439"},"modified":"2015-05-22T23:51:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T23:51:39","slug":"today-is-my-day-when-i-read-blogs-and-try-and-spark-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/today-is-my-day-when-i-read-blogs-and-try-and-spark-something\/","title":{"rendered":"today is my day when i read blogs and try and spark something"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Around such damages to the ego a shrinking psyche had formed: I applied myself to my work, but only grudgingly; I\u2019d make one move toward people I liked, but never two; I wore makeup but dressed badly. To do any or all of these things well would have been to engage heedlessly with life \u2014 love it more than I loved my fears \u2014 and this I could not do. What I could do, apparently, was daydream the years away: to go on yearning for \u201cthings\u201d to be different so that I would be different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\"><cite>Vivian Gornick,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/26\/opinion\/sunday\/the-cost-of-daydreaming.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;bicmp=AD&amp;bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&amp;bicmst=1409232722000&amp;bicmet=1419773522000\" target=\"_blank\">The Cost of Daydreaming &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/myszko.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">myszko<\/a>)<\/cite><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 90px;\">(via <a href=\"http:\/\/durgapolashi.tumblr.com\/post\/117566996445\">DCB<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Now there was only the immensity of the vacated present. Then and there I vowed to take seriously the task of filling it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around such damages to the ego a shrinking psyche had formed: I applied myself to my work, but only grudgingly; I\u2019d make one move toward people I liked, but never two; I wore makeup but dressed badly. To do any or all of these things well would have been to engage heedlessly with life \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439","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=9439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9515,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9439\/revisions\/9515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}