{"id":7672,"date":"2014-09-25T05:30:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=7672"},"modified":"2014-09-24T21:26:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T04:26:31","slug":"my-brain-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=7672","title":{"rendered":"My brain hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dain bramage. I have dain bramage. From financial paperwork. And overthinking my personal life. And general mental overload. <\/p>\n<p>So I am going to take a day off. No writing.<br \/>\nExcept for the writing that I did earlier today which doesn&#8217;t count because it is not for public viewing. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the plan:<\/p>\n<p>First I am going to curl up on the sofa and stare at a wall for a while. <\/p>\n<p>Then I am going to listen to some music and continue to stare at a wall. Maybe a different wall. <\/p>\n<p>Then I will turn the music down and try to read something. If that fails, I will go back to step one. <\/p>\n<p>Some of you may be thinking that this does not sound like a productive way to spend the evening. You are wrong. I have already made peace with a loved one, filled out a mortgage application complete with eleventeenthousand pieces of documentation, and been attacked by an enormous white spider. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite a night. <\/p>\n<p>Which wall should I stare at first?<br \/>\nMaybe I should light some candles.<br \/>\nI like candles.<\/p>\n<p>Shut up.<br \/>\nWriting about how I am not going to write doesn&#8217;t count as writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dain bramage. I have dain bramage. From financial paperwork. And overthinking my personal life. And general mental overload. So I am going to take a day off. No writing. Except for the writing that I did earlier today which doesn&#8217;t count because it is not for public viewing. Here&#8217;s the plan: First I am going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=7672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My brain hurts<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-1ZK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5191,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=5191","url_meta":{"origin":7672,"position":0},"title":"Too much of a good thing&#8211;moderate my what!?","author":"Michelle","date":"April 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I never done good things I never done bad things I never did anything out of the blue, --David Bowie\/Ashes to Ashes I have great difficulty moderating my behavior. 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