{"id":304,"date":"2003-12-11T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbw.webfactional.com\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2003-12-11T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T22:15:00","slug":"304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/304\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has become increasingly clear to me, particularly tonight after watching Santa roll through New York City (in the movie &#8220;Elf&#8221;) that I need to get off my ass.  And I don&#8217;t mean just *here*, I mean entirely.  I&#8217;ve oft considered myself completely full of shit, and admitted to it publicly time and time again, but that&#8217;s just the first of many steps.  I can sit around and think to myself, &#8220;Well, I may be full of shit, but at least I admit it&#8221; until cows fly but ultimately that is what saddens me about me.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t begin to write about what I want to write about.  What is clear to me is who I need near me.  I need to be here, right now, and I need to do some of the things I should have been doing for years.  But I need to create my environment.  I guess, at 31, I&#8217;ve finally realized that it is not going to fall in my lap.  I also know I can whittle away the hours through play and booze, and believe me, there is something to be said for that, but I&#8217;m not going to move any mountains by sitting on my ass and killing valuable brain cells (albeit on terrific Cabernet).<\/p>\n<p>I wish, I dearly wish I didn&#8217;t have to go to work tomorrow.  But it&#8217;s not the same feeling as I had in New York, dreading to go have my life and artistry sapped from my body as I skillfully served sullen solvent saps superlative slop.  It&#8217;s that I just realized I&#8217;ve had almost two months here, in this land of opportunity.  I&#8217;ve had a darn good time.  It&#8217;s time to get cracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become increasingly clear to me, particularly tonight after watching Santa roll through New York City (in the movie &#8220;Elf&#8221;) that I need to get off my ass. And I don&#8217;t mean just *here*, I mean entirely. I&#8217;ve oft considered myself completely full of shit, and admitted to it publicly time and time again, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlwms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}