{"id":76,"date":"2016-08-09T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2016-07-15T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T15:07:20","slug":"vacation-whats-a-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/blog\/2016\/08\/09\/vacation-whats-a-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation? What&#8217;s a Vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writers never go on vacation; not when the world is filled with experiences that inspire new thoughts, sensory adventures or new characters in future stories. Travel, vacations and community events provide food for writers&#8217; souls and fingertips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be bold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jump in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even at home you&#8217;ll find adventures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience a new coffee shop or visit a different park.<\/li>\n<li>Walk down a new-to-you street or visit a new shop.<\/li>\n<li>Attend a theatre in the park or an open-air market.<\/li>\n<li>Try a new food you find in an ethnic market.<\/li>\n<li>Take a class in art, woodworking, drama, or bee keeping.<\/li>\n<li>Attend a parade, a milk carton boat race, or a fashion show for dogs.<\/li>\n<li>Join in a community event to help others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When we step outside our comfort zone amazing things happen. We experience new things, and gain new insights. For writers, those adventures often turn up in their writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writers never go on vacation; not when the world is filled with experiences that inspire new thoughts, sensory adventures or new characters in future stories. Travel, vacations and community events provide food for writers&#8217; souls and fingertips. Be bold.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jump in.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even at home you&#8217;ll find adventures. Experience a new coffee shop or visit a different park. Walk down a new-to-you street or visit a new shop. Attend a theatre in the park or an open-air market. Try a new food you find in an ethnic market. Take a class in art, woodworking, drama, or bee keeping. Attend a parade,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}