{"id":2527,"date":"2021-11-13T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:38","slug":"a-very-pleasant-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2527","title":{"rendered":"A VERY PLEASANT DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typically, to take a day off from school involves so much awkward planning for a substitute teacher, it is hardly worth the effort. But all of my classes are reading books right now and that makes it super easy to make sub plans, so I took a mental health day off from school today and arranged a three day weekend for myself &#8211; at Melissa&#8217;s urging.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glad I did. I started the day with my (newly) usual Bible and prayer time followed by a two mile run with the dogs, and then I met with a friend before returning home to walk to a coffee shop with Melissa.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the afternoon I broke out some paints and brushes and started working on an art project while listening to a couple of interesting podcasts. Very enjoyable hours.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the evening I smoked some chicken wings and pizzas and both Samuel and Hannah came back from college for the weekend because Melissa&#8217;s side of the family is hosting their Thanksgiving gathering tomorrow afternoon. So fun to catch up with their lives for the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only thing missing from this pleasant day was Caleb, who was previously committed to a Campus Crusade retreat for the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, as part of my mental health day, I have finished a short and simple bit of writing and am off to bed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, to take a day off from school involves so much awkward planning for a substitute teacher, it is hardly worth the effort. But all of my classes are reading books right now and that makes it super easy to make sub plans, so I took a mental health day off from school today and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}