{"id":21600,"date":"2022-01-28T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21600"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:33:29","slug":"thoughts-1-28-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21600","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts 1\/28\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>There&#8217;s a snowstorm coming our way. I&#8217;ve looked at the snow menu and I&#8217;m ready to place my order. I&#8217;d like the Snowball Snow, individual portion (just enough to feed one Snowman), served medium-cold, with a side of light breezes, please.<\/li><li>I&#8217;m in no mood for . . . anything. I&#8217;m not happy with any book, any TV show, any hobby, any task, any anything. This is the most blah I&#8217;ve felt in a long time. I feel so blah that even my adjectives have blahhed into blahness.<\/li><li>I keep telling myself to do something every day that I don&#8217;t want to do. It doesn&#8217;t have to be some big, horrible task. It could be a small, easy one. I figure that if I do a small task every day, eventually I&#8217;ll run out of them. Then I&#8217;ll have none left but the harder tasks, but they&#8217;ll seem easier, because I&#8217;ll have worked my way up to them.<\/li><li>One seemingly small thing that I need to do soon is to go through the stack of magazines on my desk. If I don&#8217;t handle it soon, it&#8217;s going to get out of control. It reminds me of a great scene from <em>The Good Place<\/em>, a show which I enjoyed back in the days when I was feeling less blah. In that scene, a character was consigned to a prison cell for all eternity with nothing to entertain them but a stack of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. The character said something like, &#8220;Aw, come on. You know I&#8217;m never going to read them,&#8221; and even has they said it, another magazine dropped onto the pile. I laughed and laughed, because that was such an accurate representation of what it&#8217;s like to be a subscriber. You haven&#8217;t had a chance to look at the last one before another arrives, and no matter how much you think you ought to read them all, you never will. You couldn&#8217;t, even if you had all the time in the world. It&#8217;s a Sisyphean task.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a snowstorm coming our way. I&#8217;ve looked at the snow menu and I&#8217;m ready to place my order. I&#8217;d like the Snowball Snow, individual portion (just enough to feed one Snowman), served medium-cold, with a side of light breezes, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=21600\">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":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600"}],"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=21600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21602,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21600\/revisions\/21602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}