{"id":193,"date":"2008-01-18T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-01-18T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T14:09:57","slug":"snow-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/18\/snow-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it only snowed briefly where I live, but where I was supposed to go, it snowed a lot and there was a threat of ice.  Last night, at 10 PM, we called it off.  I probably could have made it but a colleague was coming from Baltimore.  The perils of being a traveling show.  Anyway, now I&#8217;m sitting at my computer, looking out at a dreary morning, trying to decide what to do.  There&#8217;s a pile of waiting projects, of course, but I hadn&#8217;t planned the time so it&#8217;s much harder for me to get started.  Church work?  Writing? Blogging?  Yoga?  Oh dear&#8230;all over the map.  Well, technically, I am blogging right now&#8230;but I meant writing something for my professional blog rather than just tinkering with this one.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the problem: no live frog today.  I live by that old saying:  &#8220;If the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long!&#8221; But, I handed in my rough draft of a case, I reserved Sunday for working on my dissertation, and the church work can wait.\u00a0 Hmm&#8230;I think I&#8217;m going to go for reading Education Week and doing some professional blogging.<\/p>\n<p>Carpe Diem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it only snowed briefly where I live, but where I was supposed to go, it snowed a lot and there was a threat of ice. Last night, at 10 PM, we called it off. I probably could have made it but a colleague was coming from Baltimore. The perils \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/18\/snow-day-2\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}