{"id":6175,"date":"2012-01-13T06:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T11:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2013-10-04T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T20:51:10","slug":"reason-23-for-writing-regularly-in-a-journal-or-notebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6175","title":{"rendered":"Reason 23 for Writing Regularly in a Journal or Notebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason 23 for writing in a journal: It&#8217;s a good outlet for the drivelisdom* (pronounced: drih-vuhl-IZ-dum) slushing around in your head.\u00a0 Also, you can go back to it later and say, &#8220;Gosh what drivel,&#8221; or &#8220;Gosh, how wise.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a piece of my own ramblings from yesterday morning, and honestly, if nothing else, a small spiral notebook and a pen are so much less expensive than a session with a shrink.<\/p>\n<p><em>There&#8217;s no such thing as <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">only<\/span> three years, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">just<\/span> three days, or three <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">mere<\/span> minutes.\u00a0 Every moment, day and year is filled with meaning and possibility.\u00a0 Life is a beverage, joy and sorrow mixed in, a potent, heady brew.\u00a0 And every year moves you and your far-removed dear ones farther along such separate paths whose blessed crossings are mere, happy blinks.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>*drivelisdom = drivel + wisdom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason 23 for writing in a journal: It&#8217;s a good outlet for the drivelisdom* (pronounced: drih-vuhl-IZ-dum) slushing around in your head.\u00a0 Also, you can go back to it later and say, &#8220;Gosh what drivel,&#8221; or &#8220;Gosh, how wise.&#8221;\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,820,13],"tags":[60,977,1076],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6857,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions\/6857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}