{"id":20835,"date":"2021-09-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20835"},"modified":"2021-09-10T07:28:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T11:28:42","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20835","title":{"rendered":"Random Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I found out today that my new neighbor went to Boston University and graduated two years after I did. It&#8217;s not unusual to run into another BU alum (it&#8217;s a large school), or even that unusual to meet one who was there at the same time, but it is always nice to find things in common with other people.<\/li><li>I woke up (and got up) before my alarm went off this morning. That would suggest that I&#8217;m adapting to the new morning schedule. But, I neglected to eat until 2:00 in the afternoon, which would suggest that I&#8217;m not adapting <em>well<\/em>.<\/li><li>I wrote a couple of pages for my novel today. It wasn&#8217;t deliberate. It just sort of happened. I noticed that there was a file on my computer called &#8220;So-and-so&#8217;s death seems a bit sudden and cliche.&#8221; The next thing I knew, I was writing a less sudden and (I hope) less cliche death for her. She doesn&#8217;t have to die, but she has to leave, because her absence is necessary for the development of another character. Trying out different ways for her to leave is a good writing exercise, whether or not it yields any good writing.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out today that my new neighbor went to Boston University and graduated two years after I did. It&#8217;s not unusual to run into another BU alum (it&#8217;s a large school), or even that unusual to meet one who &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=20835\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20839,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20835\/revisions\/20839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}