{"id":2840,"date":"2014-08-26T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2014-08-26T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:51:46","slug":"i-really-loved-this-little-anecdote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2014\/08\/i-really-loved-this-little-anecdote.html","title":{"rendered":"I really loved this little anecdote."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerismcommentary.com\/how-to-be-a-diyer-without-time-or-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>There was a guy I was reading about in the 1700\u2019s whose wife was 10 minutes late at the dinner table every [night] so he took those 10 minutes to work on a novel and he ended up writing 3 very successful novels that way by squeezing in those 10 minutes. I think that\u2019s the trick is giving yourself that time and scheduling it in. <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerismcommentary.com\/how-to-be-a-diyer-without-time-or-talent\/\" target=\"_blank\">this interview<\/a> with Mark Frauenfelder.<\/p>\n<p>I love that idea of even just in 10 (or 15 even!) minutes a day, you eventually DO have something to show for your time.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s repeated again in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coletterie.com\/thoughts-on-sewing\/good-habit-of-the-month-daily-sewing\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I got to both of these from <a href=\"http:\/\/tashamillergriffith.com\/2014\/07\/25\/time-productivity-and-all-the-things-id-love-to-do\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/maggiemakesitbetter.com\/2014\/08\/26\/the-infinite-list-fall-2014-version\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post by Maggie<\/a>, whose blog I really love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a guy I was reading about in the 1700\u2019s whose wife was 10 minutes late at the dinner table every [night] so he took those 10 minutes to work on a novel and he ended up writing 3 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2014\/08\/i-really-loved-this-little-anecdote.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[41,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random_quotes","category-world_wide_wonderfuls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}