{"id":22,"date":"2006-09-16T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/2006\/09\/16\/this-week-sucked-until-it-didn"},"modified":"2006-09-16T19:31:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T23:31:48","slug":"this-week-sucked-until-it-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/2006\/09\/16\/this-week-sucked-until-it-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"This week sucked. Until it didn&#8217;t."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of 5:00 today, I hadn&#8217;t written a single word this week. I was prepared to write a pessimism post about how crappy my week was, how I had meetings upon meetings, I had to watch auditions for my singing group, I had to figure out how to get to and from the clinic site, etc. I almost gave up and didn&#8217;t try to write this week at all.<\/p>\n<p>Then I napped a bit, and my husband gave me our stuffed hedgehog with a baseball cap on with the word &#8220;WIFE&#8221; taped on over &#8220;Yankees.&#8221; So I thought I&#8217;d try.<\/p>\n<p>He came in the room an hour later. I held up three fingers. Three pages. That would have been enough to make me happy for this week. I said &#8220;I have a couple more paragraphs in me, and then I&#8217;m calling it quits.&#8221; He left.<\/p>\n<p>I opened the door half an hour later. &#8220;I have four pages and a paragraph,&#8221; I said, surprised. We decided I had to go for it.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty minutes later, I was rolling over that sweet delicious page break, the fifth page done.<\/p>\n<p>A busy, crappy week, to be sure. But it&#8217;s Saturday, and I wrote my five pages. Small miracles. Hooray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of 5:00 today, I hadn&#8217;t written a single word this week. I was prepared to write a pessimism post about how crappy my week was, how I had meetings upon meetings, I had to watch auditions for my singing group, I had to figure out how to get to and from the clinic site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oye-como-va-general-progress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/littlemornings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}