{"id":6141,"date":"2012-06-04T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6141"},"modified":"2012-06-03T23:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T03:33:10","slug":"the-chicken-or-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6141","title":{"rendered":"The Chicken or the Egg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until a few days ago it had been rather quiet here at Blue-Footed Musings. After years of blogging, I can authoritatively state that an absence of posts indicates one of two things: either I&#8217;m extraordinarily busy or I&#8217;m in a really bad mood. I&#8217;m rarely that busy, so silence on the blog usually means I&#8217;m feeling blue.<\/p>\n<p>What I cannot tell you, though, is which comes first, the unhappiness or the silence. Do I feel blue because I&#8217;m not writing? Or do I stop writing because I&#8217;m feeling blue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until a few days ago it had been rather quiet here at Blue-Footed Musings. After years of blogging, I can authoritatively state that an absence of posts indicates one of two things: either I&#8217;m extraordinarily busy or I&#8217;m in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=6141\">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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141"}],"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=6141"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6141\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}