{"id":972,"date":"2012-02-14T08:44:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/?p=972"},"modified":"2012-02-14T08:44:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:44:43","slug":"words-to-live-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/words-to-live-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Words to live by"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>To Hell With It. Cobwebs festooning the corners? Dust pumas under the bed? Floors that crunch underfoot? So what? The laundry goes from body to hamper to washer to clothes basket to body again without being sidetracked into closet or drawer. No problem. Why scrub down the stove and the counters? They\u2019ll only get dirty again. Okay, we stop short of being shut down by the Board of Public Health. But who gives a rat\u2019s backside if the linens match? And making the bed? Please. Life is too short.<\/p>\n<p>And I have novels to write.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was bad and printed the climax first. Sort of like eating dessert before dinner. But the rest of the post is <a href=\"http:\/\/clarionfoundation.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/13\/writers-craft-59-women-with-clean-houses-dont-write-epic-novels\/#comment-3168\">here<\/a>, and is well worth your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Hell With It. Cobwebs festooning the corners? Dust pumas under the bed? Floors that crunch underfoot? So what? The laundry goes from body to hamper to washer to clothes basket to body again without being sidetracked into closet or drawer. No problem. Why scrub down the stove and the counters? They\u2019ll only get dirty <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/words-to-live-by\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,34,67],"tags":[8,74,10],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","category-blogging","category-writing","tag-around-the-house","tag-blogging","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristine-smith.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}