{"id":1863,"date":"2014-01-07T23:45:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T05:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2015-05-05T20:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:31:04","slug":"the-pressures-of-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/2014\/01\/07\/the-pressures-of-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pressures of Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NutRow01_08_14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1869\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"NutRow01_08_14\" src=\"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NutRow01_08_14.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NutRow01_08_14.jpg 497w, http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/NutRow01_08_14-150x200.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking I&#8217;m going to sit down and write about something, actually anything, and every moment I get Sigmund needs to be taken outside, lunch needs to be made, the mail needs to be gotten because a package was delivered, the dryers screaming to deal with the clothes in it, or my poor sick bedmate needs something.\u00a0 All the while I had my usual list of tasks to accomplish\u00a0 and not much of any of it has been done so when I was asked about my thoughts on pressures of expectations\u00a0 today part of me wanted to scream, scream and then cry, because the weight of it seems to be driving home.\u00a0 I woke up this morning wondering if it was going to be one of those days as the full glass of water sloshed onto the TV tray I was working on.\u00a0 I put it out of my mind but my mind seems to a bit preoccupied.\u00a0 On what you might ask, I&#8217;m still trying to figure that one out because it seems to be nothing but bats in the belfry.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep thinking I&#8217;m going to sit down and write about something, actually anything, and every moment I get Sigmund needs to be taken outside, lunch needs to be made, the mail needs to be gotten because a package was delivered, the dryers screaming to deal with the clothes in it, or my poor sick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1120,4626,9,3047,4625,37],"tags":[3039,3042,5101,440,3038,3041,38,11,12,14,57,52,13],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contributors","category-day-in-the-life-vlogs","category-diary","category-ruby-day-2","category-ruby-day-tv","category-show-all","tag-amateur","tag-bats-in-teh-belfry","tag-diary","tag-ginger","tag-milf","tag-pressures-of-expectations","tag-red-hair","tag-red-head","tag-ruby-day","tag-rubys-diary","tag-rubyday","tag-rubysdiary","tag-rubysdiary-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1870,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rubysdiary.com\/RubysDiaryBLOG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}