{"id":6518,"date":"2012-05-16T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2012-05-16T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:47:25","slug":"habits-another-postcard-from-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6518","title":{"rendered":"Habits: Another Postcard from Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Habits and coffee: I need both.\u00a0 Though the latter refreshes for the moment, the former contributes to a happy life.\u00a0 How difficult the discipline to form habits, maybe especially living out of a hotel room.\u00a0 I&#8217;m wanting to set up routines to spend time well and, frankly, feel good about being here.\u00a0 Ripped out of my happy home for two weeks, everything&#8217;s different: eating, sleeping, bathing, dressing and even my daily cup of joe.\u00a0 This morning, my fourth here, I asked myself why I&#8217;m still drinking coffee from a paper cup?\u00a0 Not a good habit.\u00a0 Tomorrow I&#8217;ll buy a real mug, allowing a better coffee drinking habit and doubling as a Chicago souvenir.\u00a0 My dear, you are certainly not a habit, but a thousand habits involve you.\u00a0 Being here, you-less, makes building two-week habits a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habits and coffee: I need both.\u00a0 Though the latter refreshes for the moment, the former contributes to a happy life.\u00a0 How difficult the discipline to form habits, maybe especially living out of a hotel room.\u00a0 I&#8217;m wanting to set up &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=6518\">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":[1012,13],"tags":[1031,1033,1013],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518"}],"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=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}