{"id":1420,"date":"2010-05-12T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T08:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:32:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:32:49","slug":"5-things-to-do-in-your-spare-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"7 Things To Do In Your Spare Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3716801318\/\" title=\"Oban D 44\" target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2669\/3716801318_0455ee3938.jpg\" title=\"Oban D 44\" alt=\"Oban D 44\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><br \/>Inflatable sheep, taped to a motorcycle&#8230; who knows why. Nice golf hat, though.<\/div>\n<p><b>How to use today&#8217;s spare time<\/b>:<br \/>1. Briefly scream and make horrible <a href=\"http:\/\/bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com\/bookshelves_of_doom\/2010\/05\/gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fbookshelves_of_doom+%28bookshelves+of+doom%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\" target= _blank>&#8220;NOOOOOOOOO!&#8221;<\/a> noises about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/deals\/tyra_banks_lands_book_deal_for_ya_series_modelland_161140.asp\" target= _blank>Intoxibellas<\/a>, and other stupidity,<br \/>2. Learn about self-publishing a la Amazon, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitaliblog.com\/2010\/05\/amazon-as-publisher-part-two-insiders.html\" target= _blank>Mitali&#8217;s two-part series<\/a>,<br \/>3. Take a look at the project called <i>A Series of Questions<\/i>, which challenges assumptions and phobias about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpgmag.com\/stories\/12847\" target= _blank>transgender people<\/a>,<br \/>4. Be both worried and amused at how easily the stick figure comic, xkcd, has made the jump to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/54927\" target= _blank>the real world<\/a>,<br \/>5. Start making plans for the 48 Hour Book Challenge &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherreader.com\/2010\/05\/fifth-annual-48-hour-book-challenge.html#links\" target= _blank>now, unbelievably, IN YEAR FIVE!<\/a><br \/>6. Hop on over to Chasing Ray&#8217;s <i>What A Girl Wants<\/i> series, and check out the books we <i>should have been reading<\/i> back in the day. Enter the time capsule and send a few deep books to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chasingray.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/what_a_girl_wants_14_what_i_sh.html\" target= _blank>your high school self<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>7. &#8211; BONUS THING TO DO: Have a day filled with at least five minutes of awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inflatable sheep, taped to a motorcycle&#8230; who knows why. Nice golf hat, though. How to use today&#8217;s spare time:1. Briefly scream and make horrible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6074,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/6074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}