{"id":55943,"date":"2022-05-19T07:01:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=55943"},"modified":"2022-05-18T18:14:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T01:14:18","slug":"life-less-tiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/life-less-tiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Less Tiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55933\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220512_131337_wm-sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55933\" src=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220512_131337_wm-sm-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mother's Day Tulips\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220512_131337_wm-sm-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220512_131337_wm-sm-768x940.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220512_131337_wm-sm.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 85vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother&#8217;s Day Tulips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I should be less tired, but I&#8217;m not. DH was out of town, which should be a good time for me to rest, but I did an extraordinary amount of driving to be with him to attend some events.<\/p>\n<p>Work has been stressful. I am working on getting a new contract, which will be in a different department. This means that I have to prepare my work to hand over to the next person. I know you are thinking &#8220;really? again?&#8221;. It is the nature of contract work. I am constantly having to get my contracts renewed or find new ones. It isn&#8217;t ideal, but I have a lot of flexibility, which I like.<\/p>\n<p>Still it is all tiring and people in the department are whispering about my contract ending, which is just annoying. I am looking forward to some time off.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done much sewing except for my work on <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/tag\/la-passacaglia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Passacaglia<\/a>. I have had an hour here and there to do some hand stitching. I love that project. I think I will go work on it now.<\/p>\n<p>See you later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should be less tired, but I&#8217;m not. DH was out of town, which should be a good time for me to rest, but I did an extraordinary amount of driving to be with him to attend some events. Work has been stressful. I am working on getting a new contract, which will be in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/life-less-tiring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Less Tiring&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[506],"tags":[83,251],"class_list":["post-55943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-506","tag-obe","tag-political-wifery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55945,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55943\/revisions\/55945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}