{"id":283,"date":"2016-01-31T03:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T03:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=283"},"modified":"2016-02-01T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:14:00","slug":"before-i-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Before I know it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 2016 &#8211; Not sure why I always wait until the very last minute to write new posts here, haha. But it always seems to happen that way! Since it has been a full month since we last talked I imagine one might think that all kinds of progress has happened and I&#8217;ve completed the book and it is off to the printer for duplication. Well&#8230;. not quite, haha. Has been a rather busy stretch in the office, so I haven&#8217;t dedicated as much time as I might have wished to writing\/editing. Which is very much where I need to be to catapult the project over the walls of procrastination.<\/p>\n<p>Have gone for some excellent hikes in recent weeks, which for anyone out there doing any writing or creative work, I&#8217;d highly recommend it during the creative process or even when you get in a slump and can&#8217;t seem to get anything down on the page. A blizzard even crashed the New England party and offered up some awesome hikes, which made familiar landscapes feel brand new. Wish I had my camera for that!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BigRiverMgmtAreaDesert1Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-284\" src=\"http:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BigRiverMgmtAreaDesert1Small.jpg\" alt=\"Big River Management Area\" width=\"600\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BigRiverMgmtAreaDesert1Small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/BigRiverMgmtAreaDesert1Small-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Did have it for a separate earlier hike to what I would describe as Rhode Island&#8217;s very own bizarre miniature desert. As the photo attests, it is a striking location (with ample seating, haha) and was great to stroll the rolling hills of sand for an hour or so. While dodging golf balls, as there was a fellow working on his game who didn&#8217;t seem too concerned that he wasn&#8217;t the only person there, haha.<\/p>\n<p>Did devote quite a few evenings to reading and want to throw out a nod to author (and well known actor) Ethan Hawke for his excellent recent release &#8216;Rules for a Knight&#8217;. Very much enjoyed every page of it, is an anecdotal series of life lessons that reminded me a bit of Paulo Coelho&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;The Alchemist&#8217; as a point of reference for anyone interested in giving it a read. The illustrations struck a chord with me as well with their delicate black and white stylings.<\/p>\n<p>That is the latest from me my friends! Will be the end of the month again\u00a0before I know it and I&#8217;ll have to scramble to write another one of these. But until then, stay awesome!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; CS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 2016 &#8211; Not sure why I always wait until the very last minute to write new posts here, haha. But it always seems to happen that way! Since it has been a full month since we last talked I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/?p=283\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[62,7,50,8,5,127,63,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavegardenarts.com\/wga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}