{"id":828,"date":"2008-07-02T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T05:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/work-play\/"},"modified":"2008-07-02T22:20:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-03T05:20:24","slug":"work-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/02\/work-play\/","title":{"rendered":"work &#038; play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I wrote, I was a giddy and panicky mess, launching <a href=\"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/16\/makin-it\/\">True*Stories<\/a>, tying up loose work ends and packing for a week in Miami. It was exciting and exhausting, and the next day was spent on airplanes and in airports.<\/p>\n<p>And then vacation happened.<\/p>\n<p>Rama and I went to Miami to visit Barbara, his (and now, my) grandmother. I brought my macbook with me with the idea that I&#8217;d do more work than play, but oh. The idea of vacation was too irresistible. I did enough work to satisfy my clients, and then I turned it off, spending the rest of the week chatting and laughing, relaxing and exploring, eating and shopping with Rama and Barbara. I slept in, I took naps, I went swimming. I even started&#8211;and finished&#8211;reading a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Among-Porcupines-Memoir-Carol-Matthau\/dp\/0394582667\/\" target=\"_new\">book<\/a> for the first time since I don&#8217;t know when.<\/p>\n<p>Even though we&#8217;ve been back for a week, I feel like I&#8217;m still riding that high. I feel like a teenager on summer vacation, and I probably act like one too. (We&#8217;ve flown kites, thrown frisbees, chased ice cream trucks and, today, picnicked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\" target=\"_new\">the lawn<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still working hard and I&#8217;m blessed to have as much work as I do. But I am playing hard too. And I can&#8217;t help but think that this is the way it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time I wrote, I was a giddy and panicky mess, launching True*Stories, tying up loose work ends and packing for a week in Miami. It was exciting and exhausting, and the next day was spent on airplanes and in airports. And then vacation happened. Rama and I went to Miami to visit Barbara, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}