{"id":1563,"date":"2012-07-04T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=1563"},"modified":"2012-07-04T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T14:34:17","slug":"just-a-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/just-a-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/07\/04\/just-a-distraction\/islandhouse50per\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per.png\" data-orig-size=\"543,717\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"islandhouse50per\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per-227x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1564\" title=\"islandhouse50per\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per.png 543w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per-113x150.png 113w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/islandhouse50per-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this open on my computer for weeks now.\u00a0 I&#8217;d work on it whenever I couldn&#8217;t think of anything else to do or was actively trying to avoid doing something else now.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m done with it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had this open on my computer for weeks now.\u00a0 I&#8217;d work on it whenever I couldn&#8217;t think of anything else to do or was actively trying to avoid doing something else now.\u00a0 I think I&#8217;m done with it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-drawing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1844,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/if-you-are-thinking-about-it-everyone-else-is-too\/","url_meta":{"origin":1563,"position":0},"title":"If you are thinking about it, everyone else is too","author":"leems","date":"September 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you ever noticed the hive-mind?\u00a0 You know, when you were just talking about some celebrity who'd been out of the news or some fictional character and suddenly the same name is mentioned on a talk show.\u00a0 When five different movies are released based on the same premise of a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3598,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/03\/30\/stop-laughing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1563,"position":1},"title":"I couldn&#8217;t stop laughing as I read&#8230;","author":"leems","date":"March 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"But there is really good content therein.\u00a0 I don't usually end up in situations where I might be beat up or anything else ...now that I think about it - 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