{"id":7408,"date":"2014-09-02T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2014-09-02T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:48:21","slug":"top-10-excuses-for-the-list-that-almost-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/top-10-excuses-for-the-list-that-almost-wasnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Excuses for the List that Almost Wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Toy-truck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7409\" src=\"http:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Toy-truck.jpg\" alt=\"Toy truck\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Toy-truck.jpg 400w, https:\/\/jolenephilo.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Toy-truck-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">10.\u00a0 The beginning of September and the swiftly diminishing daylight hours threw me into a deep funk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">9.\u00a0\u00a0 For the longest time, I could only think of 9 things for the list. Call me OCD, but I couldn&#8217;t publish this until #10 came to mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">8.\u00a0\u00a0 Senior moment. I forgot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7.\u00a0\u00a0 The computer died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6.\u00a0\u00a0 There was a power failure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5.\u00a0\u00a0 My family did an intervention, and I went off social media cold turkey for the long weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4.\u00a0\u00a0 I celebrated Labor Day by doing no work&#8230;which meant no writing or blogging for me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3.\u00a0\u00a0 Because writing never feels like work to me, I spent the weekend feverishly writing the Great American Novel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2.\u00a0\u00a0 Writing three books in one year led to a bad case of writers&#8217; block, and I couldn&#8217;t think of a thing to write about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1.\u00a0\u00a0 I spent the weekend playing games like trucks, fix-it, garden, and yummy soup with our adorable grandson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How was your Labor Day weekend? 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