{"id":24596,"date":"2017-09-09T01:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24596"},"modified":"2017-09-09T01:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:31:10","slug":"blog-creates-a-form-of-separation-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24596","title":{"rendered":"Blog creates a form of separation anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You know already that I suffer no separation anxiety from my working life. Retirement is good, man!<\/p>\n

It’s not the case with this blog. High Plains Blogger occupies a good bit of my time these days. People ask me about it. “I write daily, usually several times each day,” I respond. “It’s therapy. It’s what I do. It’s a big part of my new life.”<\/p>\n

Then there are those days when I am away from the computer for extended periods of time. Such as today. It’s now mid-evening and this is the first item I’ve posted all day.<\/p>\n

I am suffering acute separation anxiety from High Plains Blogger. This single post will go a long way toward ridding me of it.<\/p>\n

I’ve long believed that empty-next syndrome is overrated. Our sons left home after high school and never looked back. We’re glad they remain independent and have established themselves in their chosen professions.<\/p>\n

My retirement came when I wasn’t expected it — entirely. Once it did, I didn’t look back either. Nor did my wife when her time to call it a career arrived.<\/p>\n

Separation anxiety from work? Forget about it!<\/p>\n

My “work” these days is this blog. I do it not just for pleasure, but also to release pent-up emotions; I do so to rant when the spirit moves me; I write these posts to share some life experience, not that mine are unique or anything out of the ordinary.<\/p>\n

When I cannot write these posts regularly during the course of a day, I suffer from a bit of blogging withdrawal.<\/p>\n

I’m getting past it, however, at this very moment.<\/p>\n\n

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You know already that I suffer no separation anxiety from my working life. Retirement is good, man! It’s not the case with this blog. High Plains Blogger occupies a good bit of my time these days. People ask me about it. “I write daily, usually several times each day,” I respond. “It’s therapy. It’s what … Continue reading Blog creates a form of separation anxiety<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2122,3920],"class_list":["post-24596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-high-plains-blogger","tag-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24597,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions\/24597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}