{"id":3778,"date":"2010-03-11T07:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2010-03-11T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T12:08:29","slug":"in-which-she-shakes-it-off-and-sucks-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/11\/in-which-she-shakes-it-off-and-sucks-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"In which she shakes it off and sucks it up"},"content":{"rendered":"

O<\/span>kay, bear with me for one saccharine minute. Please? I promise, it’s no worse than yesterday’s introspective moaning. (I swear, I blame it on Douglas Coupland. I still credit Generation X<\/em> with getting me motivated out of a bad marriage, and I’ve spend the last three weeks reading The Gum Thief<\/em>. He gets into my brain and messes with it in a way that no person in my real life does!)<\/p>\n

Oh, and I have to say, while I really really REALLY appreciated your comments, I think I misrepresented the depths of my despair. The blog was never really at risk of ending — I don’t know if I could stop if I have to. But it just hasn’t been any fun at all for the largest part of the last month, and I don’t need another chore in my life. The blog is my escape from the housework, and shouldn’t be a drudge.<\/p>\n

So anyway, this is where I was going today: I woke up with the Beatles’ song The End <\/em>in my head, a propos of nothing. And as I’m making coffee, the line keeps bouncing around in my head: And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.<\/p>\n

It’s karma, baby. I truly believe that. I keep putting out good things into the universe, and the universe sends goodness back to me. And the past couple of weeks of bloggy constipation and soul-searching? That’s probably because I totally stole that guy’s parking spot at Costco last month and then shrugged and shot him the “Who, me?” innocent look. I was in a hurry<\/em>!<\/p>\n

So if I can blog about taking inspiration from a half-century old song that came to me in a dream with only the slightest cringe of self-consciousness, I can get through any lingering ennui. <\/p>\n

And besides, I’ve got a wicked-cool giveaway for Ottawa peeps later today. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, bear with me for one saccharine minute. Please? I promise, it’s no worse than yesterday’s introspective moaning. (I swear, I blame it on Douglas Coupland. I still credit Generation X with getting me motivated out of a bad marriage, and I’ve spend the last three weeks reading The Gum Thief. He gets into my … Continue reading “In which she shakes it off and sucks it up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}