{"id":670,"date":"2016-06-29T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=670"},"modified":"2016-06-27T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T14:53:08","slug":"june-2016-its-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"june 2016; it&#8217;s a wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-671 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/monthly-wrap-up.jpg\" alt=\"monthly wrap up\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/monthly-wrap-up.jpg 500w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/monthly-wrap-up-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s coming to the end of the first month of summer. Or well, for some, it&#8217;s summer. I come from the land of perpetual summer. Or at least I used to. I&#8217;m back here for a break, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m used to the heat. And the inactivity that comes with it. But then again, I do go through bouts of inactivity, even with blogging. It&#8217;s a really good thing I have a backlog of reviews to slowly post. I&#8217;ve been managing with that for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, I&#8217;ve got the ideas for blog posts &#8211; even saved some of them as drafts &#8211; but no motivation to actually write them. Oops?<\/p>\n<p>Take this month, for example. I wrote a total number of <strong>ONE<\/strong> discussion post! Which was a Top Ten post. I <em>came up<\/em> with three post ideas that I have drafted, and a series of posts I plan to do every couple of weeks. Why I didn&#8217;t write them out? I wish I could tell you.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I could say I haven&#8217;t been able to write new content on this blog because I&#8217;ve been busy reading, but that would be a lie. I didn&#8217;t even manage to finish the one book I was reading before I had to return it to the library. Why? I honestly have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this month has been the month of inactivity for me. It sucks, and I have no idea why. It might be a result of the change of my travel plans&#8230; The trip that I was supposed to be taking next month got pushed to this one, there were some last minute things to be done, and reading and writing fell to the wayside.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s hoping you&#8217;ve had a more productive month. Tell me all about it, and let me live vicariously through you!<\/p>\n<p>I hope next month is better.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-686\" src=\"http:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-300x148.jpg\" alt=\"2016-04-12 11:46\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-768x379.jpg 768w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-1024x505.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/signoff-1200x592.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s coming to the end of the first month of summer. Or well, for some, it&#8217;s summer. I come from the land of perpetual summer. Or at least I used to. I&#8217;m back here for a break, anyway. I&#8217;m used to the heat. And the inactivity that comes with it. But then again, I do go through bouts of inactivity, even with blogging. It&#8217;s a really good thing I have a backlog of reviews to slowly post. I&#8217;ve been managing with that for a bit. The thing is, I&#8217;ve got the ideas for blog posts &#8211; even saved some of them as drafts &#8211; but no motivation to actually write them. Oops? Take this month, for example. I wrote a total number of ONE discussion post! Which was a Top Ten post. I came up with three post ideas that I have drafted, and a series of posts I plan to do every couple of weeks. Why I didn&#8217;t write them out? I wish I could tell you. I wish I could say I haven&#8217;t been able to write new content on this blog because I&#8217;ve been busy reading, but that would be a lie. I didn&#8217;t even manage to finish the one book I was reading before I had to return it to the library. Why? I honestly have no idea. Seriously, this month has been the month of inactivity for me. It sucks, and I have no idea why. It might be a result of the change of my travel plans&#8230; The trip that I was supposed to be taking next month got pushed to this one, there were some last minute things to be done, and reading and writing fell to the wayside. Here&#8217;s hoping you&#8217;ve had a more productive month. Tell me all about it, and let me live vicariously through you! I hope next month is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[130,129,59],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monthly-wrap-up","tag-its-a-wrap","tag-june-2016","tag-writings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}