{"id":348,"date":"2010-06-11T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=348"},"modified":"2010-06-11T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T13:35:00","slug":"a-thought-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"A thought for today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aliedwards.typepad.com\/\">Ali Edwards<\/a> (one of my daily reads) has posted a great quote by Anna Quindlen:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of<br \/>tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in<br \/>lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won&#8217;t happen. We have to<br \/>teach ourselves now to live, really live&#8230;to love the journey, not the<br \/>destination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I struggle with the beginning of a new manuscript (as I always do), this is a very important lesson. The point is not to *finish* the book, the point is to *write* it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali Edwards (one of my daily reads) has posted a great quote by Anna Quindlen: Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches oftedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly inlives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won&#8217;t happen. We<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=348\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[163,361],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-quotes","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}