{"id":142,"date":"2010-02-07T21:39:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T02:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2010-02-20T19:56:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:56:29","slug":"the-wisdom-of-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/the-wisdom-of-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom of Spider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"spider\" src=\"http:\/\/image.com.com\/gamespot\/images\/2006\/features\/hardware\/vistagames\/front3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I allowed myself a little time today with my fairweather friend Spider Solitaire.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have as bad a relationship with it as some people do.\u00a0 It often clears my head and I&#8217;m pretty good at shutting the door on it when I can&#8217;t come out to play.\u00a0 Still, it bears a strong resemblance to its cousin, Free Cell, with whom I had more of an addictive relationship back in the day, so I&#8217;m always wary&#8211;hence the only limited visits from the sickbed, where I&#8217;ve had many hours today to do whatever and whatnot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And since the mind is drifting\u00a0a bit, it had a profound thought about writing and spider, which went something like this: when you do a really good job of outlining your novel, you may end up with something resembling a spider game that, by the time you&#8217;ve dealt all but two rows, may have intimidatingly long\u00a0rows of cards\u00a0trailing off each pile.\u00a0 However, if you just maintain faith that you&#8217;re dealing with a pretty good hand and a decent set of skills, you&#8217;ll clear off all the cards and end the endeavor in fireworks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At least, I hope that&#8217;s so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I allowed myself a little time today with my fairweather friend Spider Solitaire.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t have as bad a relationship with it as some people do.\u00a0 It often clears my head and I&#8217;m pretty good at shutting the door on it when I can&#8217;t come out to play.\u00a0 Still, it bears a strong resemblance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writerly-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jessicaleader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}