{"id":1527,"date":"2010-06-13T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2010-06-13T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T18:27:11","slug":"monday-motivation-the-luckiest-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/06\/13\/monday-motivation-the-luckiest-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Motivation: The Luckiest Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/clover.jpg\" alt=\"Clovers near a waterfall\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/>Saturday night, instead of writing, I plopped down on the couch and watched a couple movies with my wife.<\/p>\n<p>I had <em>plenty <\/em>of writing-related things I needed to do; in fact, the plan for the evening was writing for me, and movies for my wife.<\/p>\n<p>I knew she&#8217;d enjoy the movies even more with company, though &#8212; so instead of writing, I sat down and watched a period piece and a chick flick with my sweetie.<\/p>\n<p>I love writing, but given the choice of being alone and successful in my writing, or surrounded by people I love and never seeing success, I&#8217;ll take the people I care about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m lucky to have them in my life.<\/p>\n<p>This week, whether you&#8217;re slammed at work, lost in writing, or bogged down with other tasks and responsibilities, step away and devote some time to the people you love.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re lucky they support you in all you do; it&#8217;s the least you can do to remind them how much you love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night, instead of writing, I plopped down on the couch and watched a couple movies with my wife. I had plenty of writing-related things I needed to do; in fact, the plan for the evening was writing for me, and movies for my wife. I knew she&#8217;d enjoy the movies even more with company, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[24,23,29,59],"tags":[67,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}