{"id":1038,"date":"2015-10-09T06:35:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:51:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:51:05","slug":"short-but-sweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/2015\/10\/09\/short-but-sweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Short but Sweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten good things about being home.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>My own chair.\u00a0 Having survived hotel rooms with no chairs other than &#8220;ergonomically designed&#8221; desk chairs, I can tell you that having a real chair to sit in is a blessing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>My own bed.\u00a0 That way, when I open my eyes, I know where the bathroom is.\u00a0 And I can count on the bathroom and bedroom being on the same level.\u00a0 I still have a bruise on my wrist from a hotel in Arizona where that wasn\u2019t the case.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t fall, but only because I was able to catch myself.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>My husband.\u00a0 29.8 years and counting, and I still love him.\u00a0 He\u2019s my pal.\u00a0 He\u2019s my friend.\u00a0 He runs the clicker and has upgraded my computer, iPhone and iPad since I came back home.\u00a0 There are some real advantages to being married to a retired double E.\u00a0 Having to run strange and mostly non-working clickers on my own on the road is not fun.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"4\">\n<li>Coffee whenever I want it.\u00a0 My kind of coffee.\u00a0 Made at my preferred strength.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"5\">\n<li>Puppies.\u00a0 Jojo is currently resting on my shoulders while I type.\u00a0 There is nothing like having an eight pound puppy as a neck warmer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Jammies and Robe at all hours.\u00a0 I remain a staunch and founding member of the Pajamas Media.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Readjusting to a pace that doesn\u2019t include traveling and one or more speaking events a day.\u00a0 Tours are fun, but they\u2019re also brutal.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad to step off that band wagon until the next time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"8\">\n<li>Getting back to walking.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"9\">\n<li>Getting back to training.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol start=\"10\">\n<li>Getting back to writing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And speaking of which, it\u2019s time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten good things about being home. My own chair.\u00a0 Having survived hotel rooms with no chairs other than &#8220;ergonomically designed&#8221; desk chairs, I can tell you that having a real chair to sit in is a blessing. My own bed.\u00a0 That way, when I open my eyes, I know where the bathroom is.\u00a0 And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tour-2","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3nsBA-gK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jajance.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}