{"id":28699,"date":"2024-11-12T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=28699"},"modified":"2024-11-12T22:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T04:44:23","slug":"oh-look-i-wrote-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/oh-look-i-wrote-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, look. I wrote a book."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-1024x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-1024x550.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-768x412.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-1536x824.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1000006693-2048x1099.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mother of very young children asked me in church on Sunday, &#8220;So, what do you do all day [now all your kids are gone]?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lately, this is a difficult question to answer without some emotion, but I wanted to convey to her that I love my life. I have always been able to do the things that match my temperament, family, and interests. So I chose to say this about my new phase of life, &#8220;I am a writer, and solitude is good for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A couple weeks ago, I compiled the talks that I&#8217;ve given in sacrament meetings and stake conferences for the last 9 years serving as a church organization president of a Relief Society and then stake Primary. Friends, I have written a book of religious thought without realizing it. \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mother of very young children asked me in church on Sunday, &#8220;So, what do you do all day [now all your kids are gone]?&#8221; Lately, this is a difficult question to answer without some emotion, but I wanted to convey to her that I love my life. I have always been able to do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2024\/11\/oh-look-i-wrote-a-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, look. I wrote a book.<\/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":[8,20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699","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=28699"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28723,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28699\/revisions\/28723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}