{"id":40,"date":"2010-11-30T00:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-11-30T00:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T00:24:42","slug":"it-takes-a-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"It takes a little time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a week off over the past week.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was the first day of &#8220;work&#8221; I&#8217;ve had for 9 days.\u00c2\u00a0 Nine days off it a row!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s enough to get away and forget for a bit what I do every day.\u00c2\u00a0 Get a little distance, see the bigger picture, and all that.<\/p>\n<p>This is common practice in European countries.\u00c2\u00a0 Here in the good old USA, we believe in working until you drop, that it is somehow admirable to work every day of your life for at least 16 hours a day, just to show how tough you are, or perhaps how dedicated. I admit I have been a victim of this ideology.<\/p>\n<p>But no more.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll work my butt off, and will go toe to toe with anyone for stamina at work &#8211; for a couple months.\u00c2\u00a0 But then I&#8217;m taking off &#8211; at least a week &#8211; to get away and forget about it.\u00c2\u00a0 It is immeasurably refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>Duh.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, that I would have been this enlightened years ago.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a week off over the past week.\u00c2\u00a0 Today was the first day of &#8220;work&#8221; I&#8217;ve had for 9 days.\u00c2\u00a0 Nine days off it a row!\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s enough to get away and forget for a bit what I do every day.\u00c2\u00a0 Get a little distance, see the bigger picture, and all that. This is [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2zZaA-E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onioncap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}