{"id":500,"date":"2011-10-10T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2011\/10\/10\/winter-writing\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T21:35:00","slug":"winter-writing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2011\/10\/10\/winter-writing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The colder weather we&#8217;ve gotten here in Utah has gotten me thinking once more about reading and writing.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since I fell in love with books, I have felt that cold weather and rainy days produce the perfect setting for reading and writing. Perhaps it&#8217;s something about throwing blankets over myself (for warmth, not as a cloak) and somewhat entering a different world that appeals to me. Maybe the cold takes my mind away from what others consider important and causes me to use my imagination as a distraction from weather?<\/p>\n<p>Odd enough, winter is my least favorite season otherwise because everything dies or becomes too cold (I&#8217;m thinking of floors, blankets, air and just about everything else I contact before I&#8217;ve woken up). Perhaps I&#8217;ve created and association between terrible weather and reading\/writing as a method of finding optimism in gloomy circumstances. It&#8217;s spring weather that pushed me into writing &#8211; a season of warmth and rebirth, not a season of death and cold.<\/p>\n<p>So what does everyone else think? When is your favorite time of the year to sit down and write?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colder weather we&#8217;ve gotten here in Utah has gotten me thinking once more about reading and writing. Ever since I fell in love with books, I have felt that cold weather and rainy days produce the perfect setting for reading and writing. Perhaps it&#8217;s something about throwing blankets over myself (for warmth, not as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}