{"id":786,"date":"2008-07-11T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/an-arbitrary-week\/"},"modified":"2008-07-14T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:44:34","slug":"an-arbitrary-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/11\/an-arbitrary-week\/","title":{"rendered":"an arbitrary week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I want to do is go to bed with a good book.  Something light and fluffy that doesn&#8217;t make me think too hard or long to write in the margin. I also want to eat sushi.  Or nothing at all.  Because nothing at all is preferable to anything else I can think of.  Except sushi. Spicy tuna rolls.  Yum.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn just sent me this email: &#8216;Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until  he knew enough to write them well.&#8217;  Hemingway, Snows of Kilimanjaro.  It made my day. <\/p>\n<p>The other night at a &#8216;do&#8217; The Euro looked at me and said &#8220;Make yourself useful.  Get me a drink.&#8221;  I walked away and thought about leaving for Peru &#8211; Peru&#8217;s been on my mind a lot you see &#8211; and all the things I would have said and done if he had said the same thing two years ago.  <\/p>\n<p>I remembered Steph&#8217;s admonition, &#8220;Choose your battles.&#8221;  And Mal&#8217;s ever-constant reply, <em>&#8220;Ok.  I choose this one!&#8221;<\/em>  And then ran into both of them at the door.  I felt better, and turned around and ran into him.  He said &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; and gave me a champagne flute filled with diet coke and ice.  Because that&#8217;s his kind of drink.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I want to do is go to bed with a good book. Something light and fluffy that doesn&#8217;t make me think too hard or long to write in the margin. I also want to eat sushi. Or nothing at all. Because nothing at all is preferable to anything else I can think of. Except<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}