{"id":6453,"date":"2014-01-25T06:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T11:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2014-01-25T09:49:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T14:49:06","slug":"blog-break-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=6453","title":{"rendered":"Blog Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to have to do this, but I knew it would happen sometime.  I am taking a one-week break from posting on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThree reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have run out of ideas of things to write about.  It has become harder and harder to develop new content and write without repeating myself.<\/li>\n<li>I have very little free time.  My work day is absolutely packed from the minute I arrive in my office until the moment I leave, and when I get home, my time is focused on caring for my spouse (who remains in fragile health) and managing our household.   Whatever time I can carve into my schedule is dedicated to caring for my legion of senior pals, who I adore.<\/li>\n<li>This coming week, I must go on a business trip far away.  I will be very busy during the entire trip from morning &#8217;til night, and I won&#8217;t have any free time, at all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My twin brother and his wife are staying at my house and will care for my spouse while I am gone.  I don&#8217;t really want to leave for this long, but this trip is unavoidable. It really is the heart of what I do for my job.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, loyal blog fans, for visiting.  I&#8217;m sorry to have to break for so long.  I sure hope you will come back and pick up on February 1, when I plan to start blogging again.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, if you want to help me out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/gen\/talkblog.html\">write to me with suggestions for blog ideas<\/a> for this blog that is not an ordinary gay guy&#8217;s blog.  Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  know your limits and focus on what you have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to have to do this, but I knew it would happen sometime. I am taking a one-week break from posting on this blog. Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}