{"id":257,"date":"2014-05-02T03:03:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2014-05-01T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:04:03","slug":"fantastic-friday-spring-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/fantastic-friday\/fantastic-friday-spring-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Friday: Spring Fever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Seattle-Arboretum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" alt=\"Seattle Arboretum\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Seattle-Arboretum-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Seattle-Arboretum-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Seattle-Arboretum-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Seattle-Arboretum.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Seattle Arboretum, Japanese Gardens<\/p>\n<p>Here in Seattle, we\u2019re having perfect weather\u2013 brilliant, blue skies, with temperatures in the mid 80s. It won\u2019t last, and is in fact due to end today, but this entire week has been amazing.<\/p>\n<p>I have the worst case of Spring Fever\u2026Which makes it kinds hard to settle down and work.<\/p>\n<p>Between the seductive devil on one shoulder sweet-talking me with a sly, \u201cForget about work, Ann\u2013let\u2019s go out and play. You know you want to,\u201d and the angel on the other whispering in a voice sure to attract the attention of my conscience, \u201cYou have goals and deadlines, Ann, and as a responsible adult, you really ought focus on your work,\u201d deciding which one to listen to has been a real struggle.<\/p>\n<p>Then I figured out how to satisfy both my devil and my angel and enjoy myself in the process. How? By carefully balancing work and play. I\u2019ve been working until lunch, then spending a few hours outside, then writing for a few more hours. Successfully avoiding both feeling guilty for slacking off and feeling deprived for missing the gorgeous weather has been great.<\/p>\n<p>To share your thoughts about this, click on <b><i>leave a reply<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Until Monday, and wishing you a weekend filled with balance and joy,<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Ann<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Arboretum, Japanese Gardens Here in Seattle, we\u2019re having perfect weather\u2013 brilliant, blue skies, with temperatures in the mid 80s. It won\u2019t last, and is in fact due to end today, but this entire week has been amazing. I have the worst case of Spring Fever\u2026Which makes it kinds hard to settle down and work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantastic-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}