{"id":19737,"date":"2014-07-15T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19737"},"modified":"2014-07-15T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T17:22:52","slug":"confessions-of-a-workaholic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=19737","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Workaholic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has an addiction right &#8211; in this house, we call Tin the 5-year-old a trainaholic and Heidi the German Shepherd a cataholic and Stella the mutt is a chewaholic. <\/p>\n<p>My addiction is working. I&#8217;m in the thick right now of juggling so many multiple projects, steam is coming out of every orifice from the gears grinding so hard. <\/p>\n<p>However, I can say that I get immense satisfaction in completing work projects.<\/p>\n<p>Raising a child, training a puppy, not so much. No one listens to me in this house, I yell and scream like a banshee and all I get is Tin telling me to calm down and Stella looking at me like I&#8217;m nuts. <\/p>\n<p>I can post a cute video like this one below and everyone gets warm fuzzies about kids and puppies and may even think, <em>look at Rachel, how lucky she is to have those adorable creatures<\/em> &#8211; but they ain&#8217;t no picnic, let me tell you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nKyFbS835Xo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>On the other hand, give me a to do list any day that I can go through and complete each task and this beast of burden shines. I&#8217;m happy. Really. Maybe it&#8217;s true that at the end of life I won&#8217;t say I wanted more work projects, but on a daily basis I get deeper satisfaction in a job well done than parenting or owning a pet has ever given me. <\/p>\n<p>You heard?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody has an addiction right &#8211; in this house, we call Tin the 5-year-old a trainaholic and Heidi the German Shepherd a cataholic and Stella the mutt is a chewaholic. My addiction is working. I&#8217;m in the thick right now of juggling so many multiple projects, steam is coming out of every orifice from the gears grinding so hard. However, I can say that I get immense satisfaction in completing work projects. Raising a child,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-58l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19740,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions\/19740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}