{"id":24572,"date":"2026-06-21T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24572"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:08:26","slug":"last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24572","title":{"rendered":"Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last week was not so great. I spent a lot of it pathetically moping around because I was so unhappy about my work situation. I also accidentally dropped a drinking glass on the induction plate. The glass did not break, but the far more pricey induction plate shattered and had to be replaced. And then yesterday I found out that someone in my family has a life-threatening illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are few things more destructive than self-pity, and I refuse to give in to it. I remind myself that the week was not all bad. Here are some of the happier occurrences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>The kids finished the school year. Hooray! Just one more year for Marshall and three for Livia.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>My husband called me downstairs to see something in the back yard. It was a mama turkey with a slew of tiny baby turkeys. We could only track the babies&#8217; progress by the movement of the grass around them. Occasionally one would pop up high enough that we could actually see it, but only for a second. They were moving too fast to count, but there might have been as many as a dozen.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I learned a new word: Panglossian. It is similar in meaning to &#8220;Pollyannaish&#8221; and, like that word, comes from a literary source (in this case, a character in Voltaire&#8217;s <em>Candide<\/em> named Dr. Pangloss who is an overly optimistic chap). It&#8217;s a good word to have at the ready. If we are going to stubbornly cling to optimism, we will need the right words to describe ourselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was not so great. I spent a lot of it pathetically moping around because I was so unhappy about my work situation. I also accidentally dropped a drinking glass on the induction plate. The glass did not break, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=24572\">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\/24572"}],"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=24572"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24612,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions\/24612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}