{"id":18,"date":"2018-10-10T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2019-12-13T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:34:24","slug":"writing-wednesday-doable-regular-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/writing-wednesday-doable-regular-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"Doable Regular Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my front door with blue painter&#8217;s tape, I&#8217;ve stuck a hand-written note to myself: &#8220;Doable Regular Practices.&#8221; It&#8217;s not a long list and ranges from doing strength-training and using the Water Pik. Although I&#8217;m fairly good at meeting writing deadlines, for most of my life, I&#8217;ve neglected other maintenance practices, whether it involves my body or my surroundings. It&#8217;s weird, while I see invisible work projects, sometimes I can&#8217;t visualize the physical mess<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0around me. But I&#8217;m over 50 now, and I can&#8217;t continue going on this way. So I&#8217;m simplifying my life, making time for maintenance or regular practices. I guess you can call it self-care, but I don&#8217;t like to necessarily characterize it that way. I know that some of these things needs to become a habit, a way of life. And in incorporating these practices, my creative life will be extended. If I add anything new to my list, I know that something else in my work life needs to be eliminated to make room.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my front door with blue painter&#8217;s tape, I&#8217;ve stuck a hand-written note to myself: &#8220;Doable Regular Practices.&#8221; It&#8217;s not a long list and ranges from doing strength-training and using the Water Pik. Although I&#8217;m fairly good at meeting writing deadlines, for most of my life, I&#8217;ve neglected other maintenance practices, whether it involves my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-wednesday","tag-writing-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naomihirahara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}