{"id":40029,"date":"2026-04-13T21:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=40029"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T13:12:37","slug":"intentional-rest-day-every-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=40029","title":{"rendered":"Intentional rest day every week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I realised what I need in life. It\u2019s not a break or a vacation. I also don\u2019t need an all-expenses shopping trip spree. What I truly need is a reset day. A day of doing nothing and just rest. Maybe I can use half a day staying at home doing admin stuff and the other half to chill at home. And I need to plan for it every week. It needs to be intentional and I need to learn how to protect that time and peace. I have the space now so I just need to make time for it. It\u2019s not a housework day but a day I can truly rest &#8211; be it sleeping or just chilling at home doing what I love that can help me recharge mentally and emotionally. Traveling doesn\u2019t help in recharging. In fact, it is physically draining. Red eye flights are the worst. Long flights are the next worst.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realised what I need in life. It\u2019s not a break or a vacation. I also don\u2019t need an all-expenses shopping trip spree. What I truly need is a reset day. A day of doing nothing and just rest. Maybe I can use half a day staying at home doing admin stuff and the other&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"read-more\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=40029\">Read on<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-personal-life","category-rants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}