{"id":268,"date":"2010-04-10T21:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T20:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-04-10T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T20:05:04","slug":"perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/perhaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I will find an outlet for all that creative energy that bubbles and boils inside.<br \/>\nPerhaps I will sketch that landscape which drags me from reality and into those quiet Country lanes of my mind.<br \/>\nPerhaps I will paint another scene from Tolkien, as my mind is never far from Middle Earth these days.<br \/>\nPerhaps I will continue that short story that has been niggling away in my head for far too long.<br \/>\nPerhaps I will make and another small animation; well I know it&#8217;s called stop motion, but it can be all stop and not go.<br \/>\nPerhaps I will design that online gallery of mine, the one I started four years ago an got no further than <html...\n\nNow perhaps is an interesting word, well it is to me, according to www.etymonline.com the word comes from 1528 and is formed from M.E. <em>per, par<\/em> &#8220;by, through&#8221; + plural of <em>hap<\/em> &#8220;chance&#8221;. So I will through chance do something to release the creative flow, but maybe I&#8217;d better leave it until the morning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;okay, procrastination (1540s), from the Latin <em>procrastinationem <\/em>&#8220;a putting off,&#8221; noun of action from <em>procrastinare <\/em>&#8220;put off till tomorrow,&#8221; from <em>pro<\/em>&#8211; &#8220;forward&#8221; + <em>crastinus <\/em>&#8220;belonging to tomorrow,&#8221; from <em>cras <\/em>&#8220;tomorrow,&#8221; of unknown origin. Quite apt really \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I will find an outlet for all that creative energy that bubbles and boils inside. Perhaps I will sketch that landscape which drags me from reality and into those quiet Country lanes of my mind. Perhaps I will paint another scene from Tolkien, as my mind is never far from Middle Earth these days. Perhaps I will continue that short story that has been niggling away in my head for far too long. Perhaps I will make and another small animation; well I know it&#8217;s called stop motion, but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graeme-skinner.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}