{"id":43,"date":"2008-05-17T20:15:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T03:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=43"},"modified":"2010-06-22T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T00:37:49","slug":"in-one-ear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/in-one-ear\/","title":{"rendered":"In One Ear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been noticing that a lot of people are posting about the books they are reading for the summer, for pleasure, for whatever. I have noticed one consistent similarity throughout all these posts and that is this: <em>I will probably never read those books<\/em>. I am not a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Grapes of Wrath<\/span> sort of girl.<\/p>\n<p>I am a romance\/zombies\/Templars\/fantasy\/dinosaurs kind of girl:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Current TBR by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2501183502\/\"><\/a><a title=\"Current TBR by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2501183502\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Current TBR by Pynnski, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pynnski\/2501183502\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3106\/2501183502_9eef641837.jpg\" alt=\"Current TBR\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, there are no dinosaur books in that TBR pile, but only because I can&#8217;t find <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tyrannosaur Canyon<\/span> at the moment. As soon as I dig it out from under my bed, there it will go!<\/p>\n<p>What are you reading?<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>I have completed my first week of Atkins. It has kind of sucked, but not too hard. I am not crazy-hungry like the last time I did this.  I feel healthier, like my system is restarting itself and has purged most of the junk out of it.  Next weekend I&#8217;ll be done with Atkins and start Phase 2 of South Beach, which includes fruits and whole grains. I am not really missing bread or noodles or rice or whatever, but I&#8217;d like to have some fruits again, especially some Brooks cherries.<\/p>\n<p>I have been eating a lot of brussel sprouts.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks till Texas!<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/in-one-ear\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been noticing that a lot of people are posting about the books they are reading for the summer, for pleasure, for whatever. I have noticed one consistent similarity throughout all these posts and that is this: I will probably never read those books. I am not a Grapes of Wrath sort of girl. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/in-one-ear\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In One Ear&#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":[8,3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksreading","category-daily","category-healthwellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}