{"id":140,"date":"2010-02-06T19:25:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-02-06T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T00:25:13","slug":"guilt-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/guilt-free-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilt-Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is that a line from something, &#8220;guilt-free zone?&#8221;\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m hallucinating.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been having odd thoughts lately, since I&#8217;ve been sick and totally out of comission since Thursday, so much so that I&#8217;ve only been on the internets once or twice.\u00a0 For someone who finds it a little too easy to get pulled in, this is nothing shotr of a miracle!<\/p>\n<p>But for some reason, my absence, online and otherwise,\u00a0makes me feel guilty.\u00a0 What if I missed good news and didn&#8217;t get a chance to congratulate someone, and they think I&#8217;m not happy for them?\u00a0 What if my handful of blog-readers think I abandonned them?\u00a0 What if the nice people who have dropped by to take care of me didn&#8217;t have enough fun, and I should have been more entertaining?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s as much ego in this as guilt (oh horrors, the world will expire without my pithy reaction to the loathed facebook changes), but in any case, here I am, signing on ever so briefly, to say, I&#8217;m here!\u00a0 I&#8217;m alive!\u00a0 Congratulations on all your good news!\u00a0 I hope I entertained you!<\/p>\n<p>And I very much hope to be back to normal by Monday.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"guilt\" src=\"http:\/\/diamondexperiment.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/guilt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is that a line from something, &#8220;guilt-free zone?&#8221;\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;m hallucinating.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been having odd thoughts lately, since I&#8217;ve been sick and totally out of comission since Thursday, so much so that I&#8217;ve only been on the internets once or twice.\u00a0 For someone who finds it a little too easy to get pulled in, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}