{"id":3716,"date":"2015-05-21T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2015-05-21T00:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T04:07:25","slug":"3716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3716","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rain\" \"stump\"<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I like the nonsensical in life.<\/p>\n

All my life ….. I have been this way.<\/p>\n

As little kids, we made \u201cpretend\u201d for a lot of the time during which we played.\u00a0 Some people had imaginary friends\u2026 and others played dolls.. giving them little lives and little actions.\u00a0 We would act out scenes, or we became great explorers, superheroes, or homemakers.\u00a0 We would sit for hours and\u00a0 draw, or read, or simply play\u2026 and escape to great worlds of the unknown.<\/p>\n

Then at some point\u2026 the\u00a0 \u201cadults\u201din our little lives\u2026\u00a0 began to\u00a0 \u201ckeenly\u201d make us aware that those behaviors were childish, not real, and a \u201cwaste of time.\u201d\u00a0 Period.<\/p>\n

And then we became the adults.\u00a0 We no longer believed in the \u201cpretend\u201d and the \u201cmake believe\u201d and the \u201cnonsensical.\u201d\u00a0 As children, we would throw our tiny arms in the air, and run around in circles\u2026 simply because the notion struck us.\u00a0 As big people\u2026 we lost touch with those notions.<\/p>\n

To ALL of that.. I say\u2026. Pissshhhhaaawwww.\u00a0 Do not have it.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not…. We still try to find little joys in the \u201cmake believe.\u201d\u00a0 We still read books, listen to music, and watch TV, movies, and plays, which take us to fictitious worlds.<\/p>\n

I propose\u2026 that every day\u2026 we should do something to keep the magic alive.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think we have to be grown up all the time.\u00a0 That is just some little rule society dropped on us, when we were eleven.\u00a0 Make believe in something today.\u00a0 Have a \u201cpretend\u201d moment.\u00a0 Throw your arms up in the air like you just don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

Put on the old Donna Summer song\u2026 which never made a bit of sense\u2026\u00a0 Someone left the cake out in the rain\u2026. and I don’t think that I can take it\u2026\u2026\u2026. ‘Cause it took so long to bake it\u2026..\u00a0 And I’ll never have that recipe again.\u00a0 Oh, no.<\/p>\n

Find the recipe.\u00a0 Have that cake.\u00a0 Twirl around in circle.\u00a0 Believe in the magic.\u00a0 Make Believe.<\/p>\n

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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.\u00a0 –\u00a0 J. B. Priestley<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, I like the nonsensical in life. All my life ….. I have been this way. As little kids, we made \u201cpretend\u201d for a lot of the time during which we played.\u00a0 Some people had imaginary friends\u2026 and others played dolls.. giving them little lives and little actions.\u00a0 We would act out scenes, or we […]<\/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-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","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=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}