{"id":2574,"date":"2014-06-01T17:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/?p=2574"},"modified":"2014-06-01T17:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T21:13:38","slug":"in-a-rut-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/archives\/2574","title":{"rendered":"In a rut again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if it&#8217; difficult to tell, I&#8217;m in a rut again.<\/p>\n<p>I go through these every so often.\u00a0 This one has been especially bad, and I haven&#8217;t even been writing much short stroke work as Reject Reality.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been fiddling with a few things here and there, but nothing has really been coming to fruition.\u00a0 I keep hitting roadblocks when I do get some writing done, but most often, I can&#8217;t write more than a few paragraphs before I&#8217;m drained of motivation.<\/p>\n<p>Depression is a bitch.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not medicated, nor will I ever be.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen too much of what happens with my wife to ever even consider that.<\/p>\n<p>I still make it in to work and function.\u00a0 What I lose is my creative drive and my capacity for enjoying things.\u00a0 While that&#8217;s disheartening, it&#8217;s not life threatening.\u00a0 I just try doing other things until something wakes up my spark again.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing now.\u00a0 As always, apologies to anyone waiting for the next chapter\/story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if it&#8217; difficult to tell, I&#8217;m in a rut again. I go through these every so often.\u00a0 This one has been especially bad, and I haven&#8217;t even been writing much short stroke work as Reject Reality. I&#8217;ve been fiddling with a few things here and there, but nothing has really been coming to fruition.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/darkniciad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}