{"id":24,"date":"2015-08-11T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T22:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-08-11T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T22:14:09","slug":"not-her-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/2015\/08\/not-her-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Her Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-26 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notebook-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"notebook\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notebook-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/notebook.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a>This is my favorite time of year. The department store aisles are overflowing with bright, shiny new school supplies! I can&#8217;t resist all the colorful notebooks, pens and highlighters. This obsession with paper and notebooks began when I was very young. My mother worked for Eastern Tablet in New York and she&#8217;d come home with pads of lined paper hot off the printing presses. I&#8217;d bury my nose between the pages and breathe in the scent of fresh ink. I don&#8217;t even want to think of how many brain cells may have died in the process.<\/p>\n<p>My obsession continues to this day. When my husband sees me contemplating a pretty new notebook, he usually says &#8220;Do you really need another notebook?&#8221; To which I reply, &#8220;<em>Pish-Posh<\/em>. It has nothing to do with <em>need<\/em>.&#8221; Okay, I really don&#8217;t say <em>Pish-Posh<\/em>, but I think it in my head.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in the store the other day and this notebook caught my eye. A shiver of delight ran through me. The manuscript I&#8217;m working on right now is titled <em>Not Her Story.<\/em> The cover of the notebook says <em>This is My Story<\/em>. Yes! Serendipity. Or is it Synchronicity? I always get the two mixed up. Do I need a new notebook? Nope. Do I want it? Yes, oh yes! Did I buy it? You betcha! And that&#8217;s my story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my favorite time of year. The department store aisles are overflowing with bright, shiny new school supplies! I can&#8217;t resist all the colorful notebooks, pens and highlighters. This obsession with paper and notebooks began when I was very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/2015\/08\/not-her-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bleser.com\/linda\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}