{"id":3183,"date":"2025-02-04T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=3183"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:26:59","slug":"a-long-long-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/?p=3183","title":{"rendered":"A long, long break."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve completely neglected this endeavor. My headspace hasn&#8217;t been in the mood for writing or creativity for a very long time. Additionally, I think this medium, &#8220;blogging,&#8221; is a bit long-in-tooth. However, I do see an opportunity to change the focus of my writing from a lifestyle blog to something more personal. With that, I&#8217;ll be committing some time to re-invention. Not only for myself, but for this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Post-divorce, that seems to be a theme for my entire life. It has taken over 2 years to get to a sense of normalcy in my life and I am easing into things while rediscovering me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As my friend, Bob Emerson, used to say, &#8220;I took a long, pregnant pause.&#8221; \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve completely neglected this endeavor. My headspace hasn&#8217;t been in the mood for writing or creativity for a very long time. Additionally, I think this medium, &#8220;blogging,&#8221; is a bit long-in-tooth. However, I do see an opportunity to change the focus of my writing from a lifestyle blog to something more personal. With that, I&#8217;ll be committing some time to re-invention. Not only for myself, but for this site. Post-divorce, that seems to be a theme for my entire life. It has taken over 2 years to get to a sense of normalcy in my life and I am easing into things while rediscovering me. As my friend, Bob Emerson, used to say, &#8220;I took a long, pregnant pause.&#8221; \ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3183\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottballew.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}