{"id":2321,"date":"2020-07-03T07:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T07:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2020-07-03T07:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T07:04:29","slug":"the-one-take-away-from-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/williamgallagher.com\/selfdistract\/2020\/07\/03\/the-one-take-away-from-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The one take away from lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t used to care about weekends and now I regularly work through them as if they were weekdays, but I look forward to writing to you on a Friday.<\/p>\n

And I’ve realised that the lockdown has increased how much I rely on regular things. Such as one particular habit, routline, schedule – no, tradition, that’s the word I was looking for. We have grown a tradition during lockdown.<\/p>\n

Every Friday evening now, I order a takeaway. The plan was to do it to help out, if only in a small way, local restaurants. The plan was to buy from a different one each week and in that little way, try to contribute.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the very first one we tried was a curry house we’d not heard of before \u2013\u00a0and it was so good that we’ve ordered every Friday since. <\/p>\n

So much for spreading the joy. But this meal has become a highlight and it will be especially so tonight.<\/p>\n

Because tonight is the premiere of a much-awaited musical, streaming on Disney+. In the middle of all this, it is still art that gives people something to look forward to, something to enjoy, something to take them away from the lockdown.<\/p>\n

There is the small problem that my wife Angela believes this musical is going to be Hamilton and I know it’s going to be Frozen II.<\/p>\n

But we’ll work it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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