{"id":9615,"date":"2023-07-04T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T07:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2023-07-04T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T20:07:36","slug":"life-simple-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9615","title":{"rendered":"LiFE: Simple Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9603-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9614\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9603-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9603-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9603-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9603-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9603-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">What a Hobbit might call \u2018second breakfast\u2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I like feeling good. I like feeling better than \u2018Not too bad, all things considered\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this morning, today, I feel good. <em>Very<\/em> good. I\u2019ve been up and about since 6.30\/7-ish, when Teresa leaves for work. For me that\u2019s <em>very<\/em> unusual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t hurt that it\u2019s a beautiful sunny day. Nor that I\u2019m currently enjoying a brief if enforced (and unsustainable) sebbatical from day to day work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9604-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9617\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9604-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9604-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9604-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9604-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/img_9604-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Food eaten. Coffee, books, art, and sunshine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And simple things, like noodles with fried egg and a cup of coffee, are best enjoyed simply. I can be momentarily present to just being. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve been sleeping in the blue room recently. Test-driving it &#8211; a topical theme right now, with my quest for a new car &#8211; so to speak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus I\u2019m now sat at the table in that same room, by the open window. Pigeons are coo-ing, and passing traffic sounds a little like waves on the sea. Lace curtains waft in the slight breeze. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like feeling good. I like feeling better than \u2018Not too bad, all things considered\u2019. And this morning, today, I feel good. Very good. I\u2019ve been up and about since 6.30\/7-ish, when Teresa leaves for work. For me that\u2019s very unusual. It doesn\u2019t hurt that it\u2019s a beautiful sunny day. Nor that I\u2019m currently enjoying &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=9615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LiFE: Simple Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2v5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9636,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions\/9636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}