{"id":267,"date":"2017-10-23T14:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kldenman.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2017-10-23T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T21:32:26","slug":"distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing demands consistency; one is supposed to show up and stay on task. It&#8217;s great when the words are flowing and I&#8217;m in &#8220;the zone&#8221; but often (let&#8217;s say at the beginning, the middle or the end of a book) it&#8217;s plain old work.\u00a0 Any little thing can become a distraction at that point. My current distraction is an inquisitive Steller&#8217;s Jay. He (she?) has been determined to remove the egg shaped rocks from a nest that sits on a shelf by my door. After a few messy episodes, I decided on a solution &#8211; provide peanuts. Ha. Apparently, I am now the object of routine surveillance. I need only glance up from the screen to find a hopeful beak face peering through the window, either from the sill or a nearby branch. I think I&#8217;ve been played.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-268\" src=\"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1863\" height=\"1863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE.jpg 1863w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kldenman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/20171023_134807-COLLAGE-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1863px) 100vw, 1863px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing demands consistency; one is supposed to show up and stay on task. It&#8217;s great when the words are flowing and I&#8217;m in &#8220;the zone&#8221; but often (let&#8217;s [..]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kldenman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}