{"id":7922,"date":"2011-06-20T19:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=7922"},"modified":"2011-06-20T19:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T23:34:19","slug":"and-now-a-few-words-on-the-recent-lack-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/7922","title":{"rendered":"And Now, A Few Words on the Recent Lack of Words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Lynch posted a wonderful essay on depression. <a href=\"http:\/\/scott-lynch.livejournal.com\/261555.html\" http:\/\/scott-lynch.livejournal.com\/261555.htm target=\"_blank\">Go read it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Really, did you read it? No? Go! It&#8217;ll even open in a new tab, so you don&#8217;t have to be bothered with that meddlesome &#8220;Back&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;m always glad when someone else writes about depression. The more people who are open about their mental health problems, the less we have to feel like freaks and failures.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you&#8217;ve possibly noted that I&#8217;ve been rather quiet recently. A lot has happened in the past year or so, and it&#8217;s been gnawing at my mind and taking my energy and using it for things like, Bejeweled and Solitaire rather than anything useful.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me to the question I&#8217;ve been dealing with, which is, is this grief or depression? <\/p>\n<p>The answer is, I honestly don&#8217;t know, but I think I&#8217;m going to give it some time before I decide one way or another. But in the meantime, I probably will continue to be scarce around here. I&#8217;ll try to keep up with the Wednesday Word Association and the Thursday Photo Scavenger Hunt, because I like people to stop by and say hi. <\/p>\n<p>But as for anything else? I&#8217;m thinking maybe I&#8217;ll take a bit of a break for the summer. So if I&#8217;m not around much&#8211;sorry. But please stick around for Wednesday Word Association!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Lynch posted a wonderful essay on depression. Go read it. Really, did you read it? No? Go! It&#8217;ll even open in a new tab, so you don&#8217;t have to be bothered with that meddlesome &#8220;Back&#8221; button. First, I&#8217;m always glad when someone else writes about depression. The more people who are open about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-23M","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}