{"id":2021,"date":"2010-02-11T15:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2010-02-11T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T22:05:02","slug":"monkey-muses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/monkey-muses\/","title":{"rendered":"Monkey Muses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2022\" title=\"monkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">These monkeys make me smile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s been that kind of week, people. Can it get any more crazy around here?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reports, experiments, valentines, bike riding, park day, ballet, Cub Committe work, sign-up sheets, an advertising project, extra piano lessons, hiring a new art teacher, e-mails&#8230; and through the din I hear my voice in a muffled, tunnel-like echo saying,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;Let&#8217;s start working on <em>The Iliad<\/em> tomorrow!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(As if Homer&#8217;s pathos, hubris,\u00a0 and other epic themes have anything to add to the life we lead.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But these Monkey Muses sing on in my head, &#8220;Keep reading! Keep writing! Keep creating! This is the time of your life!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;And of course, they are perfectly correct.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sing on, Monkey Muses in my head, sing on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These monkeys make me smile. It&#8217;s been that kind of week, people. Can it get any more crazy around here? Reports, experiments, valentines, bike riding, park day, ballet, Cub Committe work, sign-up sheets, an advertising project, extra piano lessons, hiring a new art teacher, e-mails&#8230; and through the din I hear my voice in a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/monkey-muses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monkey Muses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homeschooling","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}