{"id":112,"date":"2011-06-09T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-06-18T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T15:05:49","slug":"sleeping-tiger-hidden-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/sleeping-tiger-hidden-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping Tiger, Hidden Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>*YAWN*\u00c2\u00a0 Hi.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I guess I have decided to jump start this whole <a href=\"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\">blogging<\/a> thing again.\u00c2\u00a0 I originally thought I&#8217;d keep up a site that would be a collection of my odd ideas, interesting thoughts, epic topics of debates,\u00c2\u00a0 good music and just plain old cool shit that I&#8217;m sure no one else cares about besides me, but then something strange happened right as I was getting into the swing of things&#8230; I lost my voice.<\/p>\n<p>Well I didn&#8217;t lose it, I just found myself in a self-imposed writer&#8217;s funk.\u00c2\u00a0 My sis had just died on the eve of my 35th birthday and suddenly I didn&#8217;t feel like talking about anything anymore.\u00c2\u00a0 I figured, I would never be able to top my last post dedicated to her, so nothing else could matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Riiight?<\/p>\n<p>I was perfectly happy with letting my blog fade out into the sunset, but as it turns out, I have friends that always <del>ask<\/del> nag me about writing again.\u00c2\u00a0 Meh.\u00c2\u00a0 So I figured, with me needing to literally and figuratively get the lead out for school, I better start learning to love to write again.\u00c2\u00a0 Besides, I think it is also a good way to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/davidgaines.com\/2418\/my-people\/im-angry-that-no-ones-blogging-anymore\" target=\"_blank\">David Gaines<\/a> happy and not fussing at me when he&#8217;s talking my ear off on the phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*YAWN*\u00c2\u00a0 Hi.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I guess I have decided to jump start this whole blogging thing again.\u00c2\u00a0 I originally thought I&#8217;d keep up a site that <a href=\"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/sleeping-tiger-hidden-dragon\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">[more&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[47,110,48],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-gaines","category-friends","tag-danny-byers","tag-david-gaines","tag-deena-byers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dannybyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}