{"id":52,"date":"2008-12-12T02:57:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-12-12T02:57:45","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:57:45","slug":"52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/2008\/12\/12\/52\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dell asked me to fill out a survey regarding my satisfaction with their customer service today.\u00a0 Needless to say, they did not get positive feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Finally having some\u00a0 time to totally relax makes me feel a lot better.\u00a0 Today was uneventful.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t particularly enjoy\u00a0 creative writing this term, but I&#8217;ve been thinking that I need to start writing fiction again.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been over a year since I&#8217;ve really ever written anything for pleasure, and at the very least I&#8217;m a better writer than a baker, so it&#8217;s a better way to be productive.\u00a0 Maybe not as potentially delicious, though.<\/p>\n<p>Coming into university, my ambition was always to become a writer, but I don&#8217;t really see it as an option any more.\u00a0 I think the more I believed writing was something I had to do professionally, the worse I got at it.\u00a0 The quality of my work seems to suffer the more I concern myself with how other people will take it.\u00a0 I miss the days when I could just write and go on for nine hours straight if I liked where I was going.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know, restarting might actually turn out to be easy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s like riding a bike.\u00a0 Did I ever mention that I can&#8217;t ride a bike?<\/p>\n<p>Well, that shouldn&#8217;t be a problem unless analogie miraculously gain an uncanny level of accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell asked me to fill out a survey regarding my satisfaction with their customer service today.\u00a0 Needless to say, they did not get positive feedback. Finally having some\u00a0 time to totally relax makes me feel a lot better.\u00a0 Today was uneventful. I didn&#8217;t particularly enjoy\u00a0 creative writing this term, but I&#8217;ve been thinking that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1392,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dell-is-awful","category-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/giantsquid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}