{"id":8340,"date":"2012-10-18T21:57:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T20:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8340"},"modified":"2012-10-18T22:03:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:03:21","slug":"kidnapped-by-aliens-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8340","title":{"rendered":"Kidnapped. By aliens. Twice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last week has been fun, terrifying, exciting, amusing, painful and full of absolute joy.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just been my drive to work.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent a lot of time, over the last seven days, thinking about my life and how I live it.<\/p>\n<p>I find I have not had too much time for anything really good.<\/p>\n<p>No real &#8216;added value&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Working 12-15 hours a day, seven days a week will do that.<\/p>\n<p>It will take time away.<\/p>\n<p>From the good things.<\/p>\n<p>I have not seen Vin as much as I would have liked.<\/p>\n<p>I have not practised guitar as much as I should have.<\/p>\n<p>I have not written as much as I should have.<\/p>\n<p>I am behind in my audio and video editing projects.<\/p>\n<p>Work &#8211; in the wrong quantities &#8211; will do these things.<\/p>\n<p>I threw myself in to work and a mass of personal projects a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>It stops.<\/p>\n<p>It stops now.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to get the quality back in to my life.<\/p>\n<p>Quality.<\/p>\n<p>Not squeezing some nice things in here or there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to do more.<\/p>\n<p>With less.<\/p>\n<p>Starting now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last week has been fun, terrifying, exciting, amusing, painful and full of absolute joy. And that&#8217;s just been my drive to work. I have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}