{"id":410,"date":"2014-03-22T20:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=410"},"modified":"2014-04-14T14:31:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:31:42","slug":"day-2-of-84-collapse-and-comparison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2014\/03\/22\/day-2-of-84-collapse-and-comparison\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2 of 84: Collapse and Comparison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize how much I&#8217;d been doing lately until I took off the day to put my event materials away, find homes for the extra snacks and contact the winners of the drawings. I allowed myself two hours of quiet before I headed out to watch the two Edmonds-Woodway High School chefs that helped me during the Edmonds event perform in their school&#8217;s dance team. I was beat from my events but there the two young women were, dancing a number of strenuous routines with so much energy it vibrated of the walls of the gym! Ah, envy for the energy of a teen dancer.<\/p>\n<p>Marta, my protagonist in <em>84 Ribbons,<\/em> matched the young chefs&#8217; energy. She practiced non-stop on her own, in Mrs. B&#8217;. basement space after dancing at the ballet company all day. I guess that energy of youth is alive and well across the decades! I wish it could be shared with a weary writer.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to send me your comments about ways you keep up your energy or boost that energy when you have huge tasks ahead. I might need new ways to cope.<\/p>\n<p>Dancingly Yours,<\/p>\n<p>Paddy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t realize how much I&#8217;d been doing lately until I took off the day to put my event materials away, find homes for the extra snacks and contact the winners of the drawings. I allowed myself two hours of quiet before I headed out to watch the two Edmonds-Woodway High School chefs that helped me during the Edmonds event perform in their school&#8217;s dance team. I was beat from my events but there the two young women were, dancing a number of strenuous routines with so much energy it vibrated of the walls of the gym! Ah, envy for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,13],"tags":[50,51],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-84-ribbons","category-musings","tag-energy","tag-tenacity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}