{"id":6753,"date":"2011-12-23T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6753"},"modified":"2011-12-23T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T05:07:09","slug":"merry-christmas-from-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/merry-christmas-from-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas from Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Merry Christmas y’all! I’m down here in Texas, spending the holidays with family; it was either Texas with my sister’s family, or Massachusetts with my parents, and we all agreed that the weather was better down south.<\/p>\n

My brother-in-law and I drove down here from Provo, and it was a fun little road trip! \u00a0We passed through New Mexico just before the storm, stopping at Roswell to see the UFO museum. \u00a0Interesting stuff! \u00a0Spent a night with family in West Texas before driving across the state today, arriving just this evening. \u00a0Highlights include conversations about The Dispossessed,<\/em>\u00a0postmodernism vs. moral absolutism, the Lebanese civil war, and the excesses of modern consumer culture.<\/p>\n

We’ll probably be here until Wednesday, then it’s back to Utah to drop off the car and back east for me, taking the train back to my parent’s house before heading overseas to teach English. \u00a0The last few weeks have been pretty hectic, what with moving and all, but now that I’m out of my apartment and on the road, I think things will be less stressful in some ways–fewer balls to juggle.<\/p>\n

I don’t foresee getting into much of a routine again until after the holidays, but I’ve been able to write between 500 to 1,000 words per day in Stars of Blood and Glory<\/strong> so far, and hopefully I’ll be able to keep that up. \u00a0And of course, the train ride should be perfect for pounding out words.<\/p>\n

Before the end of the year, I’ll probably do the whole reflections on 2011 thing and resolutions for 2012, but posting might be a little spotty over the next few days, at least until after Christmas. \u00a0It’s a time for family, after all. \u00a0So anyhow, I hope y’all have a wonderful holidays, and I’ll catch you after it’s over!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas y’all! I’m down here in Texas, spending the holidays with family; it was either Texas with my sister’s family, or Massachusetts with my parents, and we all agreed that the weather was better down south. My brother-in-law and I drove down here from Provo, and it was a fun little road trip! \u00a0We… Continue reading Merry Christmas from Texas!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[569],"tags":[133,274,337,148],"class_list":["post-6753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sbg","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-road-trips","tag-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1KV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6753"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6761,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6753\/revisions\/6761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}