{"id":90689,"date":"2026-03-07T07:34:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=90689"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:29","slug":"fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/07\/fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">I cannot be alone in feeling utterly fatigued by the news, by the state of the world, by what is happening all around us, and by the feeling of despair that the actions of fascist leaders are now inducing. This morning, that feels particularly acute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I also realise that I have given myself too little time off for a while and have been working more than 12 hours a day on this blog, on videos, and on other projects. I need some straightforward time to physically recover. I have already spent an hour this morning dealing with comments, posting the video, and doing other work related to these issues, and it is only 7.30 and now I need to spend much of the rest of the day resting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Might I make two requests as a result?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Firstly, might you understand if blog moderation is slow today?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Secondly, might you make your comments fairly succinct, because that will help me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot be alone in feeling utterly fatigued by the news, by the state of the world, by what is happening all around us, and<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/03\/07\/fatigue\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90690,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90689\/revisions\/90690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}