{"id":2567,"date":"2018-05-23T21:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T21:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2024-12-13T18:44:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:44:26","slug":"progress-and-vagueness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/progress-and-vagueness\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress and Vagueness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/a-writer-who-is-catholic\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20170501ff\/20170714-Arcimboldo_Librarian_Stokholm-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>First, the good news. I&#8217;ve made some progress today.<\/p>\n<p>The not-so-good news is that today&#8217;s progress amounts to 30 words that I probably won&#8217;t delete before evening.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I expect I&#8217;ll have more words finished at day&#8217;s end than I started with. That&#8217;s better than some days. But not as good as some others.<\/p>\n<p>If that all sounds rather vague, I&#8217;m not surprised. I&#8217;ve been feeling rather vague today. Maybe the weather has something to do with that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a gray, overcast drizzly sort of day. Ideal for not going outside and working on a sunburn. And with that profound thought, I present links to vaguely-related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/may-5-2018-pre-brillig-writing-progress\/\">May 5, 2018: Pre-Brillig Writing Progress<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(May 5, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/writing-a-raven-and-pallas\/\">Writing, a Raven and Pallas<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(April 8, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/2411-2\/\">In Conference, Out to Lunch, Gone Fishing, Whatever: I&#8217;m Taking a &#8216;Break&#8217;<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\n(March 26, 2018)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the good news. I&#8217;ve made some progress today. The not-so-good news is that today&#8217;s progress amounts to 30 words that I probably won&#8217;t delete before evening. On the other hand, I expect I&#8217;ll have more words finished at day&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/progress-and-vagueness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[213,223,192,209],"tags":[132,12],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-a-writer","category-creativity","category-journal","category-series","tag-weather","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-Fp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}