{"id":5947,"date":"2022-10-30T20:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T00:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2022-10-30T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T00:48:57","slug":"lucky-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/writing\/lucky-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Pumpkin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/C.L._Oct_29_2022.jpg\" alt=\"Girl in black with cat, pumpkin, and glowing moon\" width=\"342\" height=\"239\" \/>During a lovely visit with family this weekend, I had a chance to draw with my granddaughter. Usually she does her own artwork, but this time she dictated what I should draw for her, and then she added the pumpkin lines. Sweet, no? I love a gentle, bit-by-bit collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Weekends make me feel lucky. Time with family does, too. Writing has its challenges, but it usually allows me a healthy balance of work and life. When I dream, drive, chat with people I care about, take walks, do puzzles, and read, I think a lot about big picture questions that directly impact my art when I return to it. My art, in turn, helps me process the rest of my life and sift through the disorder for the patterns I crave.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to messy, leafy yards and glowing pumpkins. Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a lovely visit with family this weekend, I had a chance to draw with my granddaughter. Usually she does her own artwork, but this time she dictated what I should draw for her, and then she added the pumpkin lines. Sweet, no? I love a gentle, bit-by-bit collaboration. Weekends make me feel lucky. Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[63,1028,37],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-ha","tag-halloween","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","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=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5961,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}