{"id":139,"date":"2014-02-06T04:28:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-02-06T04:28:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T04:28:55","slug":"whats-in-the-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in the bag?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/02-05-2014-gerty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-140\" alt=\"Choicy Gert\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/02-05-2014-gerty.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/02-05-2014-gerty.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/02-05-2014-gerty-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gerty would learn that life is full of choices.<\/p>\n<p>But how to decide?<\/p>\n<p>Would you rather hold a bag of purple, or one of green?<\/p>\n<p>Would you pick a pound of cotton balls, or a pound of tissue paper?<\/p>\n<p>The differences between the selections were obvious. \u00a0But the choices were not entirely clear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And so it went on that day. \u00a0And it will again. And again. \u00a0And again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWhat we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.\u201d &#8211; \u00a0Leo F. Buscaglia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cWhen you have to make a choice and don&#8217;t make it, that is in itself a choice.\u201d &#8211; \u00a0William James<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerty would learn that life is full of choices. But how to decide? Would you rather hold a bag of purple, or one of green? Would you pick a pound of cotton balls, or a pound of tissue paper? The differences between the selections were obvious. \u00a0But the choices were not entirely clear. &nbsp; And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}