{"id":88,"date":"2010-11-21T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2010-11-21T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T00:27:00","slug":"my-2012-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"My 2012 Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of all the cool electronic equipment Jerry gives me, for which I am incredibly grateful and in fact am using this very moment, I must admit that I am still old school and often find comfort in pen and paper.&#160; Blue ballpoint gel ink pen and college ruled 100 page spiral notebooks are my materials of choice for my \u201cmorning pages.\u201d&#160; (And while I have been keeping journals since I was 10 years old, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartistsway.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Cameron<\/a> still gets a lot of the credit for my continued interest.)&#160; <\/p>\n<p>The thing I like about using pen and paper is the sense of accomplishment I get when I fill a notebook or empty a pen.&#160; (I used to think this was weird until I discovered that many of my friends feel the same way.)&#160; I\u2019ve been pondering this concept a lot lately and realized the other day that what would be really cool would be to write in the last page of a filled up spiral notebook <em>while at time <\/em>empty a ballpoint pen.&#160; I considered how this would feel like the ultimate in accomplishments until I realized it would be something that could only happen by chance and luck is not something you can take credit for.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Then I started to think about this filling a notebook\/empty a pen phenomenon in a really creepy way.&#160; What if on December 21, 2012 writers all over the globe fill notebooks and empty pens at the same time and POOF there will suddenly be a spiral notebook\/ballpoint pen rapture and we will be reduced to composing prose on computers all the time.&#160; I suppose there are worse things that could happen on this date but I don\u2019t think Julia Cameron would be too happy about it.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Um, I think this NaNoWriMo thing is making me crazy.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In spite of all the cool electronic equipment Jerry gives me, for which I am incredibly grateful and in fact am using this very moment, I must admit that I am still old school and often find comfort in pen and paper.&#160; Blue ballpoint gel ink pen and college ruled 100 page spiral notebooks are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}