{"id":2237,"date":"2017-05-20T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2017-05-21T00:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T05:15:36","slug":"whiskey-neat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"whiskey neat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like all my creative energy has been ground out of me.  Crushed away.  I had time pressure before, but I seem to remember being able to make time to just sit and&#8230;the words came.  Even if I had to jot down a topic on a scrap of register tape, I&#8217;d return home and more often than not I&#8217;d be able to recall the nuances of whatever it was I wanted to share or discuss.  Now, on the off-chance a matter pops into my head, it&#8217;s utterly gone by the time I sit down and place my fingers on the keys.  I hope I&#8217;m just out of practice and simply doing it more will help.<\/p>\n<p>I really should be in bed, though.  The day starts on the dot, though granted even that is better than it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>The two places I&#8217;ve discovered that feel like home to me are France and Hayesville.  I haven&#8217;t found anywhere else where the convergence of innumerable factors meshes with my subconscious in a way those two places do.  I&#8217;ve shared this with Diane.  I think one thing we do have in common is a restless quest to return <em>home<\/em>, wherever that is for us, respectively.  Even if our ideas of <em>home<\/em> are wildly divergent, at least we can relate on an emotional level to the feeling of displacement.  I suppose there&#8217;s some comfort in that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel like all my creative energy has been ground out of me. Crushed away. I had time pressure before, but I seem to remember being able to make time to just sit and&#8230;the words came. Even if I had to jot down a topic on a scrap of register tape, I&#8217;d return home and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}