{"id":3108,"date":"2011-09-05T03:11:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=3108"},"modified":"2011-09-05T03:11:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T08:11:43","slug":"labor-day-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2011\/09\/05\/labor-day-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor (Day) of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"A welder.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/welder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"353\" \/>It&#8217;s <a title=\"Link to Wikipedia's Labor Day entry.\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_Day\">Labor Day<\/a> in the states &#8212; a day in honor of people who had enough back in the late 19th century and demanded better working conditions; a day when we celebrate summer coming to a close with a long weekend away from work.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Link to last year's Juggling Writer Labor Day entry.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/09\/06\/monday-motivation-labor-day\/\">But I like to work on Labor Day<\/a>. Oh, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll have a beer at some point and enjoy the last day of my vacation, but before that, I&#8217;ll write.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write today to remember relatives who worked hard to pass down their prosperity so that I had it just a little bit easier than them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write today as a reminder of all the years I worked in factories and warehouses and still came home after a hot, crappy day and wrote.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll write today because each day I write is <a title=\"Link to The Juggling Writer entry about why I write every day.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2009\/09\/25\/everyday-mantra\/\">another day closer to the hope of something more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than that, though, I&#8217;ll write today because I love it!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that writing well is hard work, but damn &#8212; what fun hard work it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Labor Day in the states &#8212; a day in honor of people who had enough back in the late 19th century and demanded better working conditions; a day when we celebrate summer coming to a close with a long weekend away from work. But I like to work on Labor Day. Oh, I&#8217;m sure [&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":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108"}],"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=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}