{"id":2149,"date":"2017-01-05T01:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T01:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2017-01-17T02:37:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T02:37:18","slug":"the-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/05\/the-quiet\/","title":{"rendered":"the quiet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the week off between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s and though I had grand and lofty ideas on how I would spend my time productively, I spent much of it reading books and playing games. I guess that depends a little on your definition of productive to determine how successful I was.<\/p>\n<p>I got to visit my family beforehand and enjoyed the time with my nieces. I also got to play video games with the Very Excitable Little Dude and took Louise (briefly back from New York) out for dinner. I saw Jim&#8217;s family for Christmas eve and had dinner at a classic Barberton Chicken place with friends. It&#8217;s a thing in Northeast Ohio to do.<\/p>\n<p>But, mostly, it was quiet. Quiet days with a purring cat and a stack of books. Sometimes a little music &#8211; the bird and bee is a current favorite<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bird and the Bee - Will You Dance?\" width=\"629\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/flbce8yaBao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; but sometimes just silence broken by turning pages.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s tough to get that real silence anymore. Something is always beeping to notify of us of something else that happened that we couldn&#8217;t live without knowing.<\/p>\n<p>But of course we can.<\/p>\n<p>It was a struggle to go back to work yesterday and of course there were catastrophes and cranky people. And lots of noise. And when I got home, I left the music off and lights low. And enjoyed the quiet with a book.<\/p>\n<p>Funny how our society places such value on having things when sometimes the best thing is the absence of everything else.<\/p>\n<p>So, time to log off and go find that book again. \u00a0And a purring cat to keep me company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the week off between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s and though I had grand and lofty ideas on how I would spend my time productively, I spent much of it reading books and playing games. I guess that depends a little on your definition of productive to determine how successful I was. I got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}