{"id":6069,"date":"2025-03-22T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:54","slug":"excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6069","title":{"rendered":"EXCUSES!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a little shocking how quickly you can fall out of a habit. When I slackened my daily writing routine at the beginning of this year, I knew it would become a little easier to make an excuse each evening I just didn&#8217;t feel like sitting down to write.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But It&#8217;s a part of me now and I miss it when I don&#8217;t write. No matter what else I did during the day, it feels like I am not making the most of my time if I don&#8217;t pause to process my thoughts before bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I did have a good excuse over the past week or so &#8211; Melissa and I flew down to El Paso to visit Caleb. And between the 2-hour time difference, flights so delayed as to put us into the wee hours of the morning both going and returning, and a full-size bed for Melissa and me in Caleb&#8217;s guest room, I felt like I was only half awake the five days we spent in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not at all conducive to writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomorrow I will take some time to drop some photos here and record the highlights of the trip, but tonight I am still catching up on sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a little shocking how quickly you can fall out of a habit. When I slackened my daily writing routine at the beginning of this year, I knew it would become a little easier to make an excuse each evening I just didn&#8217;t feel like sitting down to write. But It&#8217;s a part of me [&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-6069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069","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=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}