{"id":218,"date":"2008-03-21T08:13:45","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-03-21T08:13:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T13:13:45","slug":"good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it refers to the holiday but it also refers to the fact that after four days away from home, I&#8217;m back at my desk watching the birds and the squirrels as I decide what I need to do today.<\/p>\n<p>I finished my crocheted tea cozy and small mat for a friend&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 I looked for a teapot for her but couldn&#8217;t find one I liked so may just get a box of tea to send along with the cozy.\u00a0 I also spent time last night surfing crochet and craft sites.<\/p>\n<p>I am hoping that crocheting in the evening will help me fight the battle of the bulge.\u00a0 Last night, I really wanted to snack on something even though I knew I didn&#8217;t have any points left and I wasn&#8217;t really hungry.\u00a0 I just wanted to crunch pretzels or crackers. But I crocheted and then cam back and worked on the computer.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been eating so well the past week that I don&#8217;t want to blow it now that I&#8217;m home.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already eaten cereal this morning and am getting ready to open my WW points tracker and plan the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The workshops went well.\u00a0 I only have a few things on my to do list, especially since I have the whole weekend ahead as well.\u00a0 I&#8217;m enjoying the free time since once I get started on my dissertation research, there won&#8217;t be much of that left.\u00a0 Oh!\u00a0 The best news&#8230;I&#8217;m going to get to teach my first online course starting next week.\u00a0 Very exciting!<\/p>\n<p>I did skip Maundy Thursday last night.\u00a0 Wasn&#8217;t sure I would get home in time and my church was having a supper that required rsvp.\u00a0 So, I stayed home, cooked scrambled eggs and roasted potatoes for us, then Bob went to a meeting.\u00a0 I think tonight will be whole wheat spaghetti.\u00a0 I told Bob I would make pineapple stuffing for Easter along with a slice of ham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it refers to the holiday but it also refers to the fact that after four days away from home, I&#8217;m back at my desk watching the birds and the squirrels as I decide what I need to do today. I finished my crocheted tea cozy and small mat for \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/21\/good-friday\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[16,19,14,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-3w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}