{"id":162,"date":"2019-10-17T08:34:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2019-10-17T08:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T13:34:55","slug":"my-version-of-comfort-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"My Version of Comfort Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love to write.  I really do.  So why is my blog, something I think about dozens of times a day, so empty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s mostly a matter of energy.  I&#8217;ve had some flare-ups of my medical issues, including a round of bursitis in my hip that is still causing me great pain.  Bills having me ubering every second I can.  Small calamities along the way like my beloved ergonomic keyboard dying of old age, and its replacement being a small el cheapo straight keyboard play their part. So even though my head is full of potential posts, sitting down and being coherent is sometimes more than I can muster the energy for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I realized that I need some of what the touchie-feelie folks call self-care.  I should do at least one thing that makes me feel good every day, and I want it to be this.  Writing gets the juices flowing, no matter if it is fiction, blogging or even posting on discussion sites.  I need to get my fingers moving so my brain will follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m never going to be the new Coupon Mom or AllEars.net.  I&#8217;m not going to knock any big blogs off their perches.  But at the very least I hope to provide good information and interesting commentary on the things that come into my life.  We&#8217;ll have some fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love to write. I really do. So why is my blog, something I think about dozens of times a day, so empty? It&#8217;s mostly a matter of energy. I&#8217;ve had some flare-ups of my medical issues, including a round of bursitis in my hip that is still causing me great pain. Bills having me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.middleclasspoor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}