{"id":34,"date":"2007-06-24T08:32:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T12:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=34"},"modified":"2007-06-24T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T12:38:52","slug":"retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though I was truly honored to be chosen as a reviewer for that publication I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve officially submitted my resignation to them.\u00c2\u00a0 After writing 15 reviews on 27 books (if you count my audition reviews, it’s really 18 reviews for 30 books) in the last three months, it was time to retire.<\/p>\n

If I had no other commitments in my life, I think I’d actually enjoy writing reviews.\u00c2\u00a0 But it was just plain TOO much to try to squeeze the reading of the books, the background research, and the writing of the reviews into my already jam-packed days.\u00c2\u00a0 With my library and tutoring schedule, I often leave home at 9 in the morning, not to return until 8 at night, hungry for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Once dinner is in\u00c2\u00a0my belly, that leaves an hour or so to read review books (with my exhausted eyes) before bedtime.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Granted, my tutoring has ended for the summer, so there’s more free time in my schedule now.\u00c2\u00a0 But we ARE trying to finish the painting and siding of the house, as well as the installation of the new windows that arrived on Tuesday, and the gardens need some major weeding already.<\/p>\n

So what this all comes down to is establishing priorities in one’s life.\u00c2\u00a0 Life is short, and I want mine to be about more than just how many hours I can work in a week.\u00c2\u00a0 For me, something<\/em> had to give in order to remain sane, and I chose book reviewing.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though I was truly honored to be chosen as a reviewer for that publication I’ve mentioned in the past, I’ve officially submitted my resignation to them.\u00c2\u00a0 After writing 15 reviews on 27 books (if you count my audition reviews, it’s really 18 reviews for 30 books) in the last three months, it was time to … Continue reading Retirement<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-book-reviews","category-spare-time","category-young-adult-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}