{"id":3509,"date":"2014-11-28T16:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T02:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learnedleadership.org\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2014-11-28T16:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T02:32:26","slug":"hard-take-break-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/hard-take-break-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so hard to take a break from work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you eat Thanksgiving for lunch or dinner? \u00a0For me it was dinner, and boy did I eat way too much turkey. \u00a0By the time we got home from the feast at a friends house I felt like I had to be rolled into bed. \u00a0I think I&#8217;ve learned that it makes a big difference if you celebrate Thanksgiving in the afternoon or evening. \u00a0By the time I rolled out of bed this morning I could tell that I would be walking a little slower today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3510\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learnedleadership.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/happy-thanksgiving.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3510\" class=\"wp-image-3510 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.learnedleadership.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/happy-thanksgiving-300x210.png?resize=300%2C210\" alt=\"happy-thanksgiving\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I think this is what I might look like by the end of the holiday season.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I never really know what do to on Black Friday. \u00a0We eventually ran a few errands and cleaned the house&#8230;by the way I don&#8217;t recommend the latter if it includes cleaning out your closest and trying on old pants&#8230;that was a stupid idea.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I don&#8217;t know about other educators, but I always find it so difficult to really take a break over break. \u00a0Don&#8217;t get me wrong I haven&#8217;t really done anything too noteworthy today (hopefully this blog counts for something), but all day I&#8217;ve been thinking about some of the work I need to get done. \u00a0Is that healthy? \u00a0I&#8217;m starting to wonder whether working half days over the break would make me more present during the time I&#8217;m not working. \u00a0What do yo think? \u00a0Anybody got any answers of why it so hard to take a break from work? \u00a0Or is that wrong question? \u00a0How about strategies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you eat Thanksgiving for lunch or dinner? \u00a0For me it was dinner, and boy did I eat way too much turkey. \u00a0By the time we got home from the feast at a friends house I felt like I had to be rolled into bed. \u00a0I think I&#8217;ve learned that it makes a big difference [&hellip;]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,183,242],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andys-deep-thoughts","tag-break","tag-oh-my","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BJbv-UB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learnedleadership.org\/divi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}