{"id":1776,"date":"2025-08-22T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:17:51","slug":"what-was-your-week-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/2025\/08\/22\/what-was-your-week-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What was your week like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1531\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646.png 646w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Phylosophy-Phyllis-Foundis-646-480x297.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250822-WA0000_resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1777\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250822-WA0000_resized.jpg 413w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG-20250822-WA0000_resized-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><p style=\"font-size:20px\"><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em><strong><em>Time to jot down<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>&#8230;the random, the intentional, the rants from my week that was.<\/p><p>Sydney has been a hectic, storm-lashed town, for days. Umbrellas have failed and conquered. I wrote to the deafening thrum of raindrops crashing on our tin roof \u2013 comforting, loud, relentless \u2013 a sound for all sensations.<\/p><p>On a film set this week, a wardrobe mistress looked down her nose at my sparkly boots and smooth, claret velvet suit. Dressed me in an ill-fitting Chanel-dupe jacket; grey, boxy, dumb. Had to grin and wear it. The film\u2019s star and writer blanked us \u2013 the mere, inconsequential extras. She clearly couldn\u2019t spare a spec of thanks for the extras who shivered in an icy, outdoor scene so her story could be told.<\/p><p>And I\u2019ve felt the aftershocks from a \u2018run-in\u2019 with a sociopathic teacher, as a tender-faced eight-year-old, when she grabbed my shoulders and shook me like I was a tree that would bear her fruit.<\/p><p>Maybe that\u2019s when a stutter settled on my tongue because I recall a time as a little girl when my speech was bump-free. Did that bitch bring it on? She was tall with brown, pock-marked skin and spiky black hair. I hated her.<\/p><p>She silenced my voice for decades.&nbsp;<\/p><p>Meanwhile, the rain hasn\u2019t abated. Some rush to avoid the deluge, others revel in it? I watched a man stroll unfussed, pelted by fat drops, sans umbrella. Mad? Or assured by the knowledge that eventually\u2026<\/p><p><em>\u2018\u2026the storm will run out of water\u2019.&nbsp;<\/em>Maya Angelou \u00a0<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1535\" style=\"width:100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature.jpeg 508w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Phyllis-Foundis-signature-480x425.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/figure><p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>\u00a9 Phyllis Foundis 2025<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to jot down&#8230; &#8230;the random, the intentional, the rants from my week that was. Sydney has been a hectic, storm-lashed town, for days. Umbrellas have failed and conquered. I wrote to the deafening thrum of raindrops crashing on our tin roof \u2013 comforting, loud, relentless \u2013 a sound for all sensations. On a film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phyllisfoundis.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}