{"id":49298,"date":"2013-06-09T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49298"},"modified":"2013-06-09T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T18:25:17","slug":"lazing-away-my-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49298","title":{"rendered":"Lazing Away My Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took Friday off and spent the morning listening to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/familytreecounseling\">Family Tree Counseling videos<\/a> and writing in my journal.  Then I spent the afternoon finishing this <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/bradman-s-war-malcolm-knox\/prod9780670076109.html\">book<\/a> on 1948 Australia vs England cricket.  <\/p>\n<p>And now it is Sunday and I want to spend my day off listening to more Family Tree Counseling videos and writing in my journal but I have a nagging voice in my head saying that I should be more productive, I should leave the house, I should mix with people, most of all, I should get something done. I should work on a book. I should hone some writing. Whose voice is this I hear in my head telling me to get off my bum and get to work rather than lying around watching documentaries on Everest? It&#8217;s my father&#8217;s voice. He taught that everything you do should have a purpose. If you choose to relax, it is for the purpose of becoming more productive. <\/p>\n<p>I have therapy Monday evenings. I keep checking with my therapist if I am wasting my time and my talents and she says it is fine to do things I want to do, even if they aren&#8217;t productive in the sense of finishing another book. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took Friday off and spent the morning listening to Family Tree Counseling videos and writing in my journal. Then I spent the afternoon finishing this book on 1948 Australia vs England cricket. And now it is Sunday and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49299,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49298\/revisions\/49299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}