{"id":3074,"date":"2023-12-02T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2023-12-02T08:48:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T14:48:11","slug":"writer-sees-squirrels-and-sabers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Writer Sees Squirrels&#8230;and Sabers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often enjoyed a blog tittled &#8220;Scientist Sees Sq1irrels&#8221; by Stephen Heard, a Canadian scientist who has just retired from his university faculty position.\u00a0 Always interesting essays, sometimes about science, sometimes about other things.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m half-stealing his title for this post, because I, too, &#8220;see squirrels&#8221; in the sense that I&#8217;m easily distracted by new topics, new data, something I never heard of or thought about before.\u00a0\u00a0 My mother the engineer, who could multi-track like nobody&#8217;s business, did not like my doing that.\u00a0\u00a0 Obviously, giving the length of books &amp; book groups I&#8217;ve written, I <em>can<\/em> stick to a project for years at a time.\u00a0\u00a0 But in the fine detail of those months and years, I will also spend time nosing out\u00a0 things new to me, *some* of which may show up in the current project.<\/p>\n<p>The saber continues to fascinate and challenge me.\u00a0 Yes, I&#8217;m getting slowly (annoyingly slowly) stronger and better.\u00a0 This week I started working with it twice a day, not just once a day.\u00a0 Exercises that would be boring if I had some other exercise object in my hand, but with a saber&#8230;the mindset is different.\u00a0\u00a0 I want to have a name for it, but did people ever name their saber?\u00a0 Oh.\u00a0 Wait.\u00a0 It just named itself.\u00a0 Joyeux.\u00a0\u00a0 That fits perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often enjoyed a blog tittled &#8220;Scientist Sees Sq1irrels&#8221; by Stephen Heard, a Canadian scientist who has just retired from his university faculty position.\u00a0 Always interesting essays, sometimes about science, sometimes about other things.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m half-stealing his title for this post, because I, too, &#8220;see squirrels&#8221; in the sense that I&#8217;m easily distracted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,133],"tags":[112,12],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-research","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}