{"id":137,"date":"2012-08-17T17:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T21:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:50:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:50:26","slug":"the-why-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/08\/17\/the-why-of-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The why of it all."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here about to get ready to leave the office for the week, it hits me that I really don&#8217;t get why I do all the things I do. Let&#8217;s see. There&#8217;s dance classes, playing my fiddle at the odd open mic, fire spinning, the day job, as much travel as I can stand, and whatever practice time I can cobble together between all these other activities. It&#8217;s a bit crazy. With all of that, I barely have time to sleep. It&#8217;s been on my mind for months. Why am I doing this?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have a good answer. Individually, I love doing each of those activities. But altogether, it&#8217;s exhausting. Perhaps I need to revisit the why of all of this so I can decide what to let go of. So I can spend more time with friends both old and new, to bolster the strong relationships and to build the delicate ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here about to get ready to leave the office for the week, it hits me that I really don&#8217;t get why I do all the things I do. Let&#8217;s see. There&#8217;s dance classes, playing my fiddle at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/2012\/08\/17\/the-why-of-it-all\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-philosophy-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sensorynotions.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}