{"id":1067,"date":"2014-05-09T23:31:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2014-05-09T23:31:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T22:31:55","slug":"finding-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Finding home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA return to blog titles.<\/p>\n<p>Today, when I had 5 mins off, I watched this TED talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of &#8216;Eat, Pray, Love.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/elizabeth_gilbert_success_failure_and_the_drive_to_keep_creating.html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She describes writing as being her home, something she returns to when everything else is a bit haywire &#8211; her grounding. She doesn&#8217;t care if her books flop, she writes because that&#8217;s just what she loves to do.<\/p>\n<p>I keep coming back to this blog, sometimes after a period of many many months, even though on numerous occasions I&#8217;ve considered not renewing my domain and giving up on blogging entirely. However being without this little space to write random musings felt like a real heart wrench &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0Maybe that&#8217;s because this has been my home all along?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have never known really &#8216;what I want to do&#8217;, and have always deeply admired those people who have, and are able to lead very fulfilled lives as a result.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Recently someone told me that what you do when you procrastinate is what you should be doing in the first place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maybe, finally, I have my answer.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A return to blog titles. Today, when I had 5 mins off, I watched this TED talk given by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of &#8216;Eat, Pray, Love. She describes writing as being her home, something she returns to when everything else is a bit haywire &#8211; her grounding. She doesn&#8217;t care if her books flop,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alittlebitdifferent.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}