{"id":1138,"date":"2008-09-29T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T05:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/29\/back-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T05:44:00","slug":"back-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/29\/back-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m home after an exhausting and exhilarating week at Viable Paradise XII.  I spent all day Saturday traveling, was pretty much useless on Sunday, and only regained the mental capacity to make actual decisions late this afternoon.  (Speaking of which, my wife is a saint for putting up with me.)<\/p>\n<p>Today, we stopped at the Portland Ikea (again) to pick up a dresser for our bedroom closet.  We also ordered a bed for our office\/guest room, to be delivered tomorrow, and got me a Vancouver library card.  The unpacking goes slowly but surely.<\/p>\n<p>After spending an entire week writing, talking about writing, thinking about writing, and hearing about writing, it&#8217;s a little disorienting to be back in a place where other things seem more important and immediate.  But at least I know I&#8217;m not alone.  I met a lot of amazing people last week, and I hope to keep in touch with them for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m home after an exhausting and exhilarating week at Viable Paradise XII. I spent all day Saturday traveling, was pretty much useless on Sunday, and only regained the mental capacity to make actual decisions late this afternoon. (Speaking of which,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[79,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vp12","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}