{"id":174121158,"date":"2013-01-15T15:11:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotidiantruth.posterous.com\/alone-time"},"modified":"2013-01-15T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:11:21","slug":"alone-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/01\/15\/alone-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Alone time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s truth will be quick as I am about to descend into a jetlag slumber. <\/p>\n<p>Alone time is both necessary and wonderful. <\/p>\n<p>I spent the entire day alone today. I realize this is a luxury. Many of my friends &#8211; in particular the SAHMs &#8211; don&#8217;t get to do this very often. I admire and respect them for giving up this, as I see it as so central to maintaining my true self. I don&#8217;t know how they do it &#8211; they are stars!<\/p>\n<p>For the last 4.5 weeks, I have been with other people almost 24-7. I am an extrovert, so in many ways this is good. I get energy and inspiration from being in the presence of others. However, I know it is vitally important for me to re-connect with my Self, too. I need quiet and introspection, too. Quiet and introspection help my thoughts sort out, guide my thinking toward the best paths, settle my insides. <\/p>\n<p>Today I did all kinds of mundane things &#8211; grocery shopping, cleaning, unpacking, laundry sorting, bill payments. All are necessary post-travel tasks. And I&#8217;m not done with them yet, either! But it was so refreshing and calming to do them in my own time, at my own pace, on my terms. <\/p>\n<p>Alone is good. And the best part is that I&#8217;m never lonely. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s truth will be quick as I am about to descend into a jetlag slumber. Alone time is both necessary and wonderful. I spent the entire day alone today. I realize this is a luxury. Many of my friends &#8211; in particular the SAHMs &#8211; don&#8217;t get to do &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/01\/15\/alone-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[409,410,243,169],"class_list":["post-174121158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-alone","tag-one","tag-self","tag-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rl4S-bMARM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174121158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174121158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174121158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174121158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174121158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174121158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}