{"id":7086,"date":"2017-09-01T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2017-08-30T07:01:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:01:56","slug":"the-september-silence-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2017\/09\/01\/the-september-silence-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The September Silence 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7088\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/septembersilence2017.jpg\" alt=\"Tree and sunrise\" width=\"800\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/septembersilence2017.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/septembersilence2017-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/septembersilence2017-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2017\/07\/06\/80-days\/\">the 80-Day challenge<\/a> to get the current draft of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/amagiclife\/\">the novel-in-progress<\/a> readable clicks along, it&#8217;s that time of the year: The September Silence.<\/p>\n<p>Named by a friend who missed seeing me on Facebook each September when I logged out to kick off my favorite writing time of the year (September &#8211; November), it has begun. And this year, because September first falls on the Friday before Labor Day Weekend, I&#8217;m taking the day off to write.<\/p>\n<p>(I have a certain fondness for making <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2015\/09\/07\/writing-is-hard-work-but\/\">Labor Day a day dedicated to writing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this on August 30, and I&#8217;m not sure yet if this September will be the usual break from Facebook, or a more complete social media break. (I actually enjoy Twitter because its Lists feature allows me to see things that interest me most, and not the rantings of friends-of-vague-friends that Facebook serves up, even when hiding people.)<\/p>\n<p>No matter what I decide, it&#8217;s time for darker mornings, silence, and focusing on slower things&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 80-Day challenge to get the current draft of the novel-in-progress readable clicks along, it&#8217;s that time of the year: The September Silence. Named by a friend who missed seeing me on Facebook each September when I logged out to kick off my favorite writing time of the year (September &#8211; November), it has [&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\/7086"}],"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=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}