{"id":28,"date":"2016-01-18T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2016-01-18T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T19:24:22","slug":"two-weeks-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/18\/two-weeks-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Weeks Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That first post annoys me, now. I read another January 1st blog that was nearly identical. Why does anyone start a blog if they have nothing to say?<\/p>\n<p>Life is moving along at a grind. Sick babies and overwork and not enough money. But the bills are paid for the month and the baby&#8217;s hair is getting long and there are cupcakes in the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>And snow! I love that we finally have snow. I don&#8217;t like the bitter cold and the wind whipping through the 100-year-old windows in my living room, but I love the cold.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, I came across the Norwegian idea of koselig. The closest translation is cozy, but it&#8217;s a feeling of closeness with friends and family and hunkering down against the winter, making your own warmth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying, this winter, to cultivate koselig. When the worry about money and health and being stuck inside gets too thick, I put on fuzzy socks, light a candle, and snuggle my family.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say the worry never wins, but I have been able to beat it back at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That first post annoys me, now. I read another January 1st blog that was nearly identical. Why does anyone start a blog if they have nothing to say? Life is moving along at a grind. Sick babies and overwork and not enough money. But the bills are paid for the month and the baby&#8217;s hair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jenniferlkclark.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}