{"id":25,"date":"2006-05-18T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/18\/the-brink-of-change\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T08:43:01","slug":"the-brink-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"the brink of change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I guess the fact that I&#8217;m up at 1:30 in the morning speaks for itself; I&#8217;m busier than usual these days. It never fails when I have something to procrastinate for &#8211; the degree of business is directly proportional to the importance of the task. In this case, I have a master&#8217;s thesis to write, so I decide to buy my first house, apply for a new job, start a blog, start a new diet and exercise regime, and plan a birthday BBQ for myself. How would I get anything done without the impetus of procrastination?<\/p>\n<p>Turning 38 is not so bad. I know myself well enough to know what I want (a birthday party with carrot cake with my friends in the National Park) and I&#8217;m getting less and less afraid of saying what I think. I&#8217;m becoming a crochety old woman who doesn&#8217;t care what other people think so long as I get my way.<\/p>\n<p>I have two friends coming in from NYC for my BBQ. It&#8217;s so much fun to have friends visit. These days I have a hard time remembering what I like to do &#8211; and an even harder time remembering what I was going to be when I grew up. The terrifying thought occurs to me that I don&#8217;t think I ever made a conclusive decision on that one. Oh! I just remembered, I like to cook too, particularly for other people. I don&#8217;t want to be a cook though, or a masseuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I guess the fact that I&#8217;m up at 1:30 in the morning speaks for itself; I&#8217;m busier than usual these days. It never fails when I have something to procrastinate for &#8211; the degree of business is directly proportional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=25\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-old","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}