{"id":10116,"date":"2015-05-27T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=10116"},"modified":"2015-05-26T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T06:21:35","slug":"talk-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10116","title":{"rendered":"Talk, talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you spend 3 hours a day talking to someone on the phone, it doesn&#8217;t leave a lot of room for writing. That isn&#8217;t a complaint, I&#8217;ve loved it. Looking forward to talking more, in fact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes. The phone. I know. It&#8217;s very retro. Talking on the phone isn&#8217;t really something I do very much, except for this last week or so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So what am I going to do?<\/p>\n<p>Keep talking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See where it goes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I dunno.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Start writing instead of eating lunch.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are ways to make this work, right?<\/p>\n<p>Right.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you spend 3 hours a day talking to someone on the phone, it doesn&#8217;t leave a lot of room for writing. That isn&#8217;t a complaint, I&#8217;ve loved it. Looking forward to talking more, in fact.&nbsp; Yes. The phone. I know. It&#8217;s very retro. Talking on the phone isn&#8217;t really something I do very much, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=10116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Talk, talk<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2Da","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1821,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1821","url_meta":{"origin":10116,"position":0},"title":"You said something","author":"Michelle","date":"October 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Signal fading, listen to what I'm saying Testing, testing This better be worth all of the breath I'm wasting --Elvis Costello\/Radio Silence \u00a0 Silent is an anagram for listen. 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