{"id":4914,"date":"2017-06-30T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2017-06-30T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T22:38:52","slug":"wasnt-this-supposed-to-get-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wasnt-this-supposed-to-get-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t This Supposed to Get Easier?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>It&#8217;s been quiet around the Skelley Compound, relatively speaking. \u00a0Our kids are both out of the house, the dog&#8217;s manic episodes have mostly faded away. We should have more time than ever available for writing.<\/p>\n<p>Ha.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t been able to diagnose the cause, but our writing time has shrunk instead of growing. Somehow it always ends up being pretty much ten p.m. by the time we settle in at our desks in the Writing Cave. Which would be fine, if certain of us didn&#8217;t have to be out of bed at oh-shit-thirty the next a.m.<\/p>\n<p>At least we&#8217;re still writing every day, so it&#8217;s not as bad as it could be. We&#8217;re just not writing as much as we should be every day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4157\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marz2-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marz2-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Marz2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We blame the dog. (We always blame the dog. I mean, look at this beast, isn&#8217;t that the face of someone who means us all harm?)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2141\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LSM-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LSM-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/LSM.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been quiet around the Skelley Compound, relatively speaking. \u00a0Our kids are both out of the house, the dog&#8217;s manic episodes have mostly faded away. We should have more time than ever available for writing. Ha. We haven&#8217;t been able to diagnose the cause, but our writing time has shrunk instead of growing. Somehow it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bumps-bruises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}