{"id":1582,"date":"2020-08-27T04:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T11:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2020-08-28T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T00:18:40","slug":"log-off-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2020\/08\/27\/log-off-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Log Off Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The country did not suit, I collect?<\/p>\n<p><em>No, Sir. Not at all. Yet I had set great store by it when I was in (Job City), distracted by a hundred trifles, and by daily cares, with hardly two hours I could call my own until late in the evening, when I was good for nothing; and it seemed to me that nowhere could country peace and quiet reach a higher point than in (Sand Rock), a remote settlement in (the north), with no post, no newspapers, no untimely visitors. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Patrick O&#8217;brian, <em>The Nutmeg of Consolation<\/em>, sorta<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem of the author who is speaking in dialogue speaks to me, but mostly as a reminder that the environment per se is never the root cause of the writer&#8217;s trouble. <\/p>\n<p>Even in this postless place, with money enough to cover the very basics for the very short term, I found myself thinking: Christ I don&#8217;t have time for a job.<\/p>\n<p>Which is fine, but like the author implies, things like shedbuilding and addressing addictions have a way of expanding to fill time and space, crowding out things that matter more, and just as effectively as a stupid day job can. <\/p>\n<p>This is a battle in a war that can never be decisively and finally won. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country did not suit, I collect? No, Sir. Not at all. Yet I had set great store by it when I was in (Job City), distracted by a hundred trifles, and by daily cares, with hardly two hours I could call my own until late in the evening, when I was good for nothing; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}