{"id":2752,"date":"2020-10-28T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2020-11-03T16:19:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T16:19:50","slug":"a-change-is-as-good-as-a-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/28\/a-change-is-as-good-as-a-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"A Change is as Good as a Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P8190522-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2754\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">I have been blogging for over five years now. I have written 430 posts. Over one hundred of those are <em>Poem for a Thursday <\/em>posts. Way too many of them are about books I have bought and probably not enough are reviews of those books. I have talked about my love for London many, many times. I have written about days out, ranted about what is on my mind, and waxed nostalgic about my children growing up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blogging has taught me a little about building a website, a little about photography, and a little more about writing. It has given me a place that is my own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last year, I have struggled a bit to keep this blog going. Sometimes the <em>Poem for a Thursday <\/em>posts are the only things I have had the energy to write. The world doesn&#8217;t lend itself to going on adventures, my own life has included some not very pleasant stresses, and my budget currently does not allow as much book buying as I used to indulge in. What do you write about then? I didn&#8217;t always know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought about quitting blogging but I knew I didn&#8217;t really want to. If I stopped blogging I would just go back to writing things in my head instead of on here. I wouldn&#8217;t really stop writing; I would simply stop writing it down. So, what do you do when you don&#8217;t know what to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, everything blogging related, that is. I have not run away from home and started a new life as a nosy lady in an English village who solves the numerous murders of surrounding neighbors though that does appeal at times. I have, however, changed blogging platforms and completely changed the look of my blog. It has been a lot of work and a steep learning curve and I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose this means I will still be here writing the occasional book review and dreaming of traveling again. Either that or I will have to find an English village that needs a lady detective. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been blogging for over five years now. I have written 430 posts. Over one hundred of those are Poem for a Thursday posts. Way too many of them are about books I have bought and probably not enough are reviews of those books. I have talked about my love for London many, many times. I have written about days out, ranted about what is on my mind, and waxed nostalgic about my children growing up. Blogging has taught me a little about building a website, a little about photography, and a little more about writing. It has given me a place that is my own. Over the last year, I have struggled a bit to keep this blog going. Sometimes the Poem for a Thursday posts are the only things I have had the energy to write. The world doesn&#8217;t lend itself to going on adventures, my own life has included some not very pleasant stresses, and my budget currently does not allow as much book buying as I used to indulge in. What do you write about then? I didn&#8217;t always know. I thought about quitting blogging but I knew I didn&#8217;t really want to. If I stopped blogging I would just go back to writing things in my head instead of on here. I wouldn&#8217;t really stop writing; I would simply stop writing it down. So, what do you do when you don&#8217;t know what to do? You change everything. Well, everything blogging related, that is. I have not run away from home and started a new life as a nosy lady in an English village who solves the numerous murders of surrounding neighbors though that does appeal at times. I have, however, changed blogging platforms and completely changed the look of my blog. It has been a lot of work and a steep learning curve and I have thoroughly enjoyed every moment of it. I suppose this means I will still be here writing the occasional book review and dreaming of traveling again. Either that or I will have to find an English village that needs a lady detective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[83,82],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging","tag-blog","tag-blogging"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holdsuponhappiness.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}