{"id":37608,"date":"2018-09-11T06:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37608"},"modified":"2018-09-11T06:29:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T11:29:19","slug":"writers-block-in-a-fourth-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37608","title":{"rendered":"Writer\u2019s Block in A Fourth Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writer\u2019s Block in A Fourth Turning<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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I have writer\u2019s block.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not for lack of things to write about in my personal life or in world events but for the past six months, I just haven\u2019t felt like I\u2019ve had anything new or interesting to say.<\/p>\n

No words of wisdom, no earth-shattering revelations and no interest in rehashing topics that have been talked about dozens of times by people smarter than me.<\/p>\n

I think part of the problem is that I\u2019m past the point of talking and moving more towards the \u201cI\u2019m done talking\u201d point.<\/p>\n

So I focus on other things to keep myself and my mouth out of trouble.<\/p>\n

I spent Sunday installing new brake pads on my wife\u2019s Mercedes up at a hunting buddy\u2019s place. He\u2019s a heavy duty mechanic who helps me with jobs that I think are a little more complicated than I want to handle on my own.<\/p>\n

After working with him on it for the afternoon I realized I could have done it by myself but that it would have taken me twice as long since he already knew what he was doing. He likes German cars and is familiar with them.<\/p>\n

The job wasn\u2019t that complicated but it was a nuisance. I probably wouldn\u2019t need his help again but he\u2019d likely offer it anyways. That\u2019s friendship as I understand it so I offered him a hand replacing the rear struts in his car whenever he decided he wanted to do the job. He doesn\u2019t need my help but I can speed the process up and he likes the company and the banter.<\/p>\n

As you get older the constant stream of jobs like this help you realize that life is filled mostly with tasks that have to be done.<\/p>\n

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Writer\u2019s Block in A Fourth Turning I have writer\u2019s block. It\u2019s not for lack of things to write about in my personal life or in world events but for the past six months, I just haven\u2019t felt like I\u2019ve had anything new or interesting to say. No words of wisdom, no earth-shattering revelations and no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[7],"tags":[17173,21602,5856],"class_list":["post-37608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-francis-marion","tag-social-life","tag-the-burning-platform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37609,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37608\/revisions\/37609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}