{"id":1883,"date":"2010-11-30T20:39:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T04:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=1883"},"modified":"2010-11-30T20:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T04:45:24","slug":"the-one-in-which-i-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/11\/30\/the-one-in-which-i-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"The One in Which I Do Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have you left on your <a href=\"\/journal\/2010\/11\/22\/the-beginning-of-the-end-again\/\">road trip<\/a> yet?&#8221; has been a popular question of late.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No&#8221; has been the only accurate answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When are you leaving?&#8221; and &#8220;What have you been doing?&#8221; have been the equally-popular follow-up questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Probably Thursday&#8221; and &#8220;Absolutely nothing&#8221; have been my very happy responses.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, &#8220;absolutely nothing&#8221; really is what it sounds like &#8211; aside from just under two hours of work on <a href=\"http:\/\/jamwiki.org\">JAMWiki code<\/a> and this journal entry, the past two days have been filled with naps, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civilization5.com\/\">game<\/a>, and a couple of <a href=\"http:\/\/frozen.cpk.com\/\">CPK frozen pizzas<\/a>.  While regressing into a waste of life might normally be cause for scorn and self-loathing, after a mostly-unbroken stretch of working for <a href=\"http:\/\/backcountry.com\">Backcountry<\/a>, working on side-projects, and trying to have a social life, this new (and hopefully short-lived) degeneration into worthlessness seems to be having a restorative &#8220;reset&#8221; effect; burnout is ever-so-slowly giving way to a renewed desire to go out into the world and shake things up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Have you left on your road trip yet?&#8221; has been a popular question of late. &#8220;No&#8221; has been the only accurate answer. &#8220;When are you leaving?&#8221; and &#8220;What have you been doing?&#8221; have been the equally-popular follow-up questions. &#8220;Probably Thursday&#8221; and &#8220;Absolutely nothing&#8221; have been my very happy responses. In this case, &#8220;absolutely nothing&#8221; really &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2010\/11\/30\/the-one-in-which-i-do-nothing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The One in Which I Do Nothing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}