{"id":76,"date":"2008-07-14T18:44:35","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-07-14T18:44:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T22:44:35","slug":"mid-year-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Year Tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An acquaintance of mine gave a mid-year tally of her publications, writings, movies watched, books read, etc. and it inspired me to look at the numbers for my year.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>read 7 books<\/li>\n<li>saw 58 movies<\/li>\n<li>wrote 5 book reviews<\/li>\n<li>wrote 2 poems<\/li>\n<li>wrote 35 short stories (most still in first draft stage)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found I am poor at keeping track of such things.\u00c2\u00a0 My husband generally keeps track of my movies for me.\u00c2\u00a0 For the remainder of the year I will need to do a better job of tracking my read books.\u00c2\u00a0 I won&#8217;t even attempt to keep track of the short stories I&#8217;ve read.\u00c2\u00a0 Since creating the tally I&#8217;ve read two more books and added them to a Word document that has the books I can remember reading\u00c2\u00a0this year.\u00c2\u00a0 See?\u00c2\u00a0 Already I&#8217;m doing a better job!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to last year&#8217;s move I had over 125 books in my &#8220;to be read&#8221; (TBR) pile.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m starting to work on that pile though it goes ever so slowly.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn&#8217;t built in a day though, so I have no illusions that it will disappear in a day, or a week, or even a few months.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An acquaintance of mine gave a mid-year tally of her publications, writings, movies watched, books read, etc. and it inspired me to look at the numbers for my year.\u00c2\u00a0 read 7 books saw 58 movies wrote 5 book reviews wrote 2 poems wrote 35 short stories (most still in first draft stage) I found I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/?p=76\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mid-Year Tally<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tally","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amberstults.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}