{"id":1625,"date":"2010-09-08T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T10:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2010-09-08T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T10:22:02","slug":"losing-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/08\/losing-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, shifting it, away from this blog. It&#8217;s my last month at work, my last month in my flat, and only a bit more than a month left until I leave for <a href=\"http:\/\/inforeignparts.net\/haiti\" target=\"new\">Haiti<\/a>. I&#8217;m also spending more time with my family because it will be hard to be away while my dad is still sick. I&#8217;m trying not to get too nervous about the big empty space that is my future after Haiti &#8211; what&#8217;s the use of worrying after all, when there&#8217;s nothing I can really do about the fact that I&#8217;ll turn 30 while being (almost) broke, unemployed and living at my parents? (This has become a bit of a catch phrase for me, I like to make people smile with me instead of pity me.) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a valuable time for me, this month gearing up to what will probably be one of the toughest but hopefully also most rewarding challenges in my life. Also (slight non-sequitur), yesterday I got see my dad&#8217;s face naked for the first time <em>ever<\/em>! *g* <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s had a beard since I was two or so, so I&#8217;ve only seen photos of him without one. I must say, I like it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/evamaria_n\/4967646557\/\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4091\/4967646557_9e6b1a3bf5_m.jpg\" border=0 hspace=2 vspace=2 alt=\"My dad with no beard\"><\/a><br \/>\n*squishes her Papi*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or rather, shifting it, away from this blog. It&#8217;s my last month at work, my last month in my flat, and only a bit more than a month left until I leave for Haiti. I&#8217;m also spending more time with my family because it will be hard to be away while my dad is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/multifaceted-abnormal.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}