{"id":2802,"date":"2011-08-02T07:15:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T14:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2011-08-02T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T17:14:59","slug":"arise-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2011\/08\/02\/arise-and-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Arise and work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that immediately after waking is the best time to write &#8211; when your purpose is not already acquired. Acquired, you may continue on through the night, but not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>I myself am an effective night-owl, but only when continuing to work on something began much earlier. When I try to start something new late it&#8217;s pretty much guarenteed to fail. Might as well watch TV, or better yet, go to sleep. On the other hand, after several years or trying to write a bit on this blog, I have realized that the bulk of my best stuff was written early in the day. Sometimes very early, when I coudln&#8217;t go back to sleep after the baby began fussing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o\u2019clock sharp.\u201d &#8211; W. Somerset Maugham.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, when I am completely and utterly lacking in creativity, the pages of my notebook end up looking like this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/stupid-doodle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"321\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 353px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 353\/321;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that immediately after waking is the best time to write &#8211; when your purpose is not already acquired. Acquired, you may continue on through the night, but not the other way around. I myself am an effective night-owl, but only when continuing to work on something began much earlier. When I try to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2011\/08\/02\/arise-and-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Arise and work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}