{"id":8127,"date":"2012-05-06T06:15:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2012-05-06T06:15:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T13:15:12","slug":"too-much-book-writing-not-enough-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/too-much-book-writing-not-enough-yoga\/","title":{"rendered":"The Writing Room: My Flesh Is Weary — Too Much Book-Writing, Not Enough Yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My desk as I write this post. Yes that’s me in the wallpaper — in New York City, a place that still shows up in my writing life dreams. Photos by Barbara Newhall.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can you guess who wrote these lines?\u00a0 “Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” <\/strong>Hint: The writer’s been dead for at least two millenniums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apparently, you and I are not the first writers to complain of the butt-wearying effects of too much time spent arranging and rearranging words.<\/p>\n

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My yoga mat and strap await me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Writers have been complaining of the writing blahs since the papyrus days.\u00a0 This passage is from the Bible — Ecclesiastes 12:12. Which means that somebody was experiencing the writing blahs something like\u00a0 2,300 years ago.<\/p>\n

As for me, today is today, and I’m off to yoga. Now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Can you guess who wrote this? “Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Hint: The writer’s been dead for at least two millenniums. Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,52],"tags":[729,34,730,488,575,731],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-on-writing-reading","category-the-writing-room","tag-book-writing","tag-dont-miss","tag-religion-books","tag-the-writing-life","tag-writing","tag-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}