{"id":2983,"date":"2013-07-29T13:57:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T17:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2013-07-29T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T18:09:02","slug":"q-do-you-write-when-youre-on-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/q-do-you-write-when-youre-on-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Do You Write When You&#8217;re on Vacation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2984\" style=\"width: 107px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2984\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2984\" alt=\"Minnesota\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/StiltsWindow.jpg\" width=\"97\" height=\"160\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minnesota<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A: Yes.\u00a0 My life is less fun if I\u2019m not writing, so on vacation, I usually find time to write.\u00a0 It\u2019s often only a couple of hours on the plane or in the morning before I join the rest of the family, but that\u2019s enough to keep my ideas going and stay connected to the calm, inner part of myself.\u00a0 I need that to fortify me in the chaos of a zillion interactions. The few times I&#8217;ve tried to leave my computer behind, thinking that would be healthy for me, I&#8217;ve ended up buying a tablet of paper.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2985\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2985\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2985\" alt=\"Cousins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CuzHug.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cousins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My most recent family reunion in northern Minnesota involved 32 relatives, four ukuleles, one harrumph, a new water ski, and a dead mouse.\u00a0 It was totally fun, and I received lots of advice about my writing, especially my title for my new series.<\/p>\n<p>As I was paddle boarding around the island with one of my favorite nieces, an art major who leads <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ymcatwincities.org\/camps\/camp_widjiwagan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Widji<\/a> trips during the summers, we realized how great it was to be enjoying vacation but also looking forward to the return to regular life.\u00a0 We\u2019re lucky when both are equally sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A: Yes.\u00a0 My life is less fun if I\u2019m not writing, so on vacation, I usually find time to write.\u00a0 It\u2019s often only a couple of hours on the plane or in the morning before I join the rest of the family, but that\u2019s enough to keep my ideas going and stay connected to the [&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":[37],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2990,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}