{"id":514,"date":"2007-01-20T19:46:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/20\/warming-up-the-writing-fingers\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T19:46:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T00:46:14","slug":"warming-up-the-writing-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"warming up the writing fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a zillion thoughts racing through my head and I have to take a moment to shoo them away before I can settle down and work on my thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody suggested that I get my admin credential. Does that mean she thinks I would be a good principal? I have played with this idea in the past &#8211; Sue and Songbae like the idea, simply because they want to be able to say, &#8220;My sister is a principal.&#8221; (More or less fun than saying, &#8220;My brother&#8217;s an investment banker&#8221; or &#8220;My sister&#8217;s an epidemiologist&#8221;? Not that it&#8217;s a contest or anything.)<\/p>\n<p>I was practically offered a job yesterday. Which is why I don&#8217;t know how to look for a job. In the past they have always found me. So this makes me wonder about two things: Am I letting opportunity direct my life? Is that a bad thing?<\/p>\n<p>I think I will apply, but I don&#8217;t know if that is what I would want to do. (I am couching my words on purpose. I don&#8217;t want to get in trouble someday for having written about work.) Sounds like I&#8217;ll have to write a pro\/con list for that one.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to be when I grow up. It&#8217;s not that I am so unhappy, I just wonder if there&#8217;s something else <em>more fun<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a zillion thoughts racing through my head and I have to take a moment to shoo them away before I can settle down and work on my thesis. Somebody suggested that I get my admin credential. Does that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=514\">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":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","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=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}