{"id":23267,"date":"2024-06-20T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23267"},"modified":"2024-06-20T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:10:53","slug":"6-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23267","title":{"rendered":"6\/20\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>I&#8217;m sick of my job. I&#8217;ve had the same job for nearly 30 years, and while I still enjoy it sometimes, it&#8217;s not as much fun as it used to be, nor is it likely to get better. In saying that, I&#8217;m not asking for the Powers That Be to bring about any changes in my life; I&#8217;m grateful for what I have and perfectly fine being bored at work as I collect my easy paychecks. I am starting to think about how I might change things for myself, though. If I were to leave my job, how else might I earn a living?<\/li><li>I was having a tough time finding a book to suit my mood, so I picked up a favorite that I hadn&#8217;t read in years: <em>Watchers<\/em> by Dean R. Koontz. My copy is an old paperback that&#8217;s sadly splitting up the spine as I reread it. I&#8217;m technically not supposed to buy books right now, but I ordered a used hardcover copy to replace it. (There are some things I <em>must <\/em>have in life, among them readable copies of all my favorite books.) Meanwhile, I am enjoying the book so far, though it bugged me, as it always does, when one of the main characters fed chocolate to his dog. Chocolate is toxic to dogs. I wonder how many letters the author received about that. Probably more than a few.<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve been very stressed out lately, but I expect to be done with most of the stressiest stuff over the next week or so. Then it&#8217;ll be smooth sailing for a while, I hope.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sick of my job. I&#8217;ve had the same job for nearly 30 years, and while I still enjoy it sometimes, it&#8217;s not as much fun as it used to be, nor is it likely to get better. In saying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23267\">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\/23267"}],"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=23267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23271,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23267\/revisions\/23271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}