{"id":651,"date":"2015-01-07T19:25:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2015-01-07T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:25:16","slug":"after-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"After the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota. Sunny but brrrrrrrr cold . \u00a0Blessed to be inside, but eating too much comfort food and watching too much daytime tv!<\/p>\n<p>However, a spurt of energy has given me the ability to cross off one more item from my &#8220;to due&#8221; list \/ purging page after page of hard copy drafts of lOVE IMAGINED.<\/p>\n<p>It has to do with age, space (lack of), and living in the moment .<\/p>\n<p>I will be sixty -seven this month, closer to the unknown daily; respectful of my sons who will have to figure out what to do with my &#8220;life&#8217;s &#8221; stuff after I pass; I recycle frequently.<\/p>\n<p>My domain is 800 square feet small; I like it clutter free \/ room for beauty.<\/p>\n<p>Living in the moment means, for me, to be aware of the past but not to carry it with me\/ not to let it weigh me down.<\/p>\n<p>I lighten my load, periodically, \u00a0 \u00a0 To breathe, to be able to move forward, and to allow the possibility for love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Do you save copies of all your work? Hard copies? Computer copies? \u00a0Why or why not ?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota. Sunny but brrrrrrrr cold . \u00a0Blessed to be inside, but eating too much comfort food and watching too much daytime tv! However, a spurt of energy has given me the ability to cross off one more item from my &#8220;to due&#8221; list \/ purging page after page of hard &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/?p=651\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7],"tags":[74,28,34],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love-imagined","category-the-art-of-writing","tag-love","tag-memoir","tag-mixed-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sherryquanlee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}