{"id":95,"date":"2020-12-11T13:27:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/?p=95"},"modified":"2020-12-21T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T20:36:17","slug":"how-hard-can-it-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/?p=95","title":{"rendered":"How hard can it be?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Do a blog,&#8221; they said.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"760\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-wall.jpg?resize=828%2C760&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-wall.jpg?w=828&amp;ssl=1 828w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-wall.jpg?resize=300%2C275&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-wall.jpg?resize=768%2C705&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-wall.jpg?resize=600%2C551&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><figcaption>photo credit: i can has cheezburger <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who has been on a Zoom meeting, in a Google hangout, or used Skype with me knows I love my cat. To view me through a webcam is to see Cleo.&nbsp; In this age of work-from-home and coronavirus, a pet&#8217;s appearance on screen is not unusual. However, she will not leave me alone in a room. I think she took a cat-guardian oath before I adopted her. And then there is the \u201care you paying attention\u201d thing. If she hears voices, all the more reason to climb onto the keyboard, walk between my chair and the camera, and lie down on the open notebook. Two years ago, I recorded a video\u2014a serious training video. Using a script, a tripod, an extra layer of make-up, I managed to film the episode. Then came the upload and the edit. Unknown to me, Cleo sat just beyond my shoulder through three-fourths of the segment, silently watching the whole procedure. I could not edit her out! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-in-the-books-billings-library.jpg?resize=237%2C231&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-113\" width=\"237\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-in-the-books-billings-library.jpg?w=564&amp;ssl=1 564w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/terryiswriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cat-in-the-books-billings-library.jpg?resize=300%2C292&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What keeps you from doing the things you would like to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Tell me, how hard can it be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do a blog,&#8221; they said. Anyone who has been on a Zoom meeting, in a Google hangout, or used Skype with me knows I love my cat. To view me through a webcam is to see Cleo.&nbsp; In this age&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/?p=95\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How hard can it be?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":[18],"tags":[22,23,21],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-by","tag-blog","tag-cat","tag-work","excerpt"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terryiswriting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}