{"id":1378,"date":"2025-09-14T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:56:59","slug":"wow-has-it-really-been-this-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/?p=1378","title":{"rendered":"wow. has it really been this long?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I do think of this site more often than my posts suggest. My life is largely sleep (and barely at that), work, then i usually come home absolutely exhausted and unable to think of, let alone do anything creative. When Saturday comes around, i&#8217;m usually emotionally depleted from work the previous week and i tend to just stay in this fugue state all day, then somehow manage to usually stay up too late. <br \/><br \/>Sundays are the only day in the week (usually) where i&#8217;m rested. And it&#8217;s filled with chores and errands and sometimes cooking large batches of food for the upcoming week. <br \/><br \/>All of this is about as exciting for you to read as reading a catalog of wallpapers but if i were to be honest about it, there is a larger point to be made.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately it&#8217;s getting to the point in my day where i need to transfer to my bedroom and start getting ready for bed.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>One thing i&#8217;ll say before i go is that when i leave for work, it is now pitch black outside. We are in this odd period of the year where it&#8217;s not hot enough to be summer nor cool enough to be autumn. Still, this afternoon, an awning of grey stretched across the horizons and it rained for a while. It was relaxing in a way that i haven&#8217;t felt since spring.<\/p>\r\n<p>Oh, before i go- i&#8217;ve been trying to paint more lately. It has not been going well. I may talk more about this as this post develops.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do think of this site more often than my posts suggest. My life is largely sleep (and barely at that), work, then i usually come home absolutely exhausted and unable to think of, let alone do anything creative. When Saturday comes around, i&#8217;m usually emotionally depleted from work the previous week and i tend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/?p=1378\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;wow. has it really been this long?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synaesthetic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}