{"id":277,"date":"2005-07-26T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T07:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/biding-time\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T15:19:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:19:07","slug":"biding-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/26\/biding-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Biding time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little, and my birthday or Christmas was coming up, I had trouble waiting through what seemed like an impossibly huge number of days. My parents came up with a cool idea that really got me through the anticipation.<\/p>\n<p>They had me create a linked chain of paper loops, one loop per day. (The loops were made by cutting strips of paper and gluing one end to the other.) Every day, I&#8217;d rip off a loop. It really helped my perspective &#8211; even when it seemed like there was still a really long time left, I could see the tangible difference between how long the chain had been at the beginning, and how long it was a week (or whatever) later. The usual time frame was about a month.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m again waiting impatiently for an event that seems an impossible number of days away. So, with a little sheepish silly feeling, I turned to my old reliable coping mechanism and pulled out scissors and glue. The past couple of nights I spent some time cutting up 220 strips of various multicolored wrapping paper, writing a date on each, and gluing them in a chain.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out quite long (probably over 40 feet) and garishly festive-looking. Steve said it wasn&#8217;t too obnoxious, so we decided to put it along the back of the mantel &#8211; visible, but not right in front of the eyes. As he predicted I would, I giggled with self-consciousness and delight as I ripped the first link.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/pix\/paper-loops.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was little, and my birthday or Christmas was coming up, I had trouble waiting through what seemed like an impossibly huge number of days. My parents came up with a cool idea that really got me through the anticipation. They had me create a linked chain of paper loops, one loop per day. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handiwork","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}