{"id":5208,"date":"2012-01-02T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2012-01-05T00:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T04:56:30","slug":"labor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5208","title":{"rendered":"Labor of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband likes <em>60 Minutes<\/em>, and sometimes I watch it with him. I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily consider the broadcasts memorable, but I remember Andy Rooney once saying something like this: &#8220;The good [columns] take an hour [to write]. The bad ones take weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was so right! When I write Dear Marshall and Dear Livia posts, the ones that I like best are almost always those that seem to write themselves. Most of them are painful and slow, and sometimes I give up trying to make them good. I just post them, because if I wait too long they&#8217;ll no longer feel relevant and I&#8217;ll have to delete them. I figure that someday I&#8217;ll be happy to have all of the posts, whether poor or mediocre or excellent, because each one tells a story, not just about the children but about the whole family and our life together. So I continue to put out those Dear Marshall and Dear Livia posts, even the slow ones that probably aren&#8217;t any good.<\/p>\n<p>This is my labor of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband likes 60 Minutes, and sometimes I watch it with him. I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily consider the broadcasts memorable, but I remember Andy Rooney once saying something like this: &#8220;The good [columns] take an hour [to write]. The bad ones &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5208\">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":[348,243,5],"tags":[82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208"}],"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=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5292,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}