{"id":20360,"date":"2021-01-01T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T05:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=20360"},"modified":"2021-02-16T23:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T05:34:19","slug":"in-which-i-complete-my-first-book-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2021\/20210101-20360.htm","title":{"rendered":"In which I complete my first book of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s <em>Catwings Return<\/em> is 48 pages long, has illustrations on nearly every page, and just happens to be due back to the library tomorrow with no more renewals available (which means I&#8217;ve had it on my bookshelf for 12 weeks already &#8211; nothing like a due date to inspire action.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20363\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_20210101_231056657-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a tiny accomplishment, but I&#8217;m learning to celebrate tiny things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One fewer word missed on the verse I&#8217;m memorizing. The times when my children look me in the eye when I call their name instead of just ignoring me. A couple square feet of counterspace cleared of dishes and wiped clean of crumbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 2021 be a year of many tiny steps in a good direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ursula K. Le Guin&#8217;s Catwings Return is 48 pages long, has illustrations on nearly every page, and just happens to be due back to the library tomorrow with no more renewals available (which means I&#8217;ve had it on my bookshelf for 12 weeks already &#8211; nothing like a due date to inspire action.) It&#8217;s a &#8230; <a title=\"In which I complete my first book of 2021\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2021\/20210101-20360.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In which I complete my first book of 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[1664,932,1666,1665],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20360"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20365,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20360\/revisions\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}