{"id":397,"date":"2014-03-13T03:40:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T03:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=397"},"modified":"2014-03-13T03:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T03:40:56","slug":"hardware-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Store."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mousewrennch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-399\" alt=\"mousewrennch\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mousewrennch.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mousewrennch.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/mousewrennch-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a little secret about me. (Well.\u00a0 Not for long&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>I have favorite words.\u00a0 For all sorts of different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Some words, I like, because of what they mean.\u00a0 Love. Compassion.\u00a0 Wholeness.\u00a0 Light.\u00a0 Goodness.\u00a0 Cheeseburger.\u00a0\u00a0 You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>But SOME words&#8230; I like for no good reason.\u00a0 Maybe it is the way they sound, or how they look.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>For instance&#8230;.. Wobbly.\u00a0 Gumption.\u00a0 Lurk.\u00a0 Slumpy.<\/p>\n<p>And another comes to mind.\u00a0 Glitch.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I was very familiar with GLITCH.\u00a0 It appears I hit one.\u00a0\u00a0 What exactly does that mean?\u00a0 Well, if you listen to Mr. Webster&#8230;.<br \/>\nGlitch is a noun&#8230;. which means a sudden, usually temporary malfunction or irregularity of equipment. It also means an unexpected setback in a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Personally&#8230;. I think he nailed the definition.<\/p>\n<p>And, as luck would have it&#8230; yesterday my brain, heart, and soul felt like they were experiencing a temporary malfunction.\u00a0\u00a0 It is sort of like when your computer gets hung up&#8230; and you see the spinning hourglass (or in the case of Mac users&#8230; the spinning beach ball.)<\/p>\n<p>Relentlessly&#8230;.\u00a0 my hourglass and beach ball, BOTH, were in a spin.\u00a0 And for no apparent reason.<\/p>\n<p>When we hit a wall, and there IS a good reason for it&#8230;.. we can at least give it a &#8220;name&#8221; or a &#8220;meaning&#8221;&#8230;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But.\u00a0 When there is no evident source, or cause&#8230;.\u00a0 it is just hard to figure.\u00a0 Plain old hard to figure.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings to mind another word I like.\u00a0 Monkeywrench.<\/p>\n<p>It definitely think the ambiguous Monkeywrench caused the glitch.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of all of this?\u00a0 People.\u00a0 Today.\u00a0 Which brings to mind the other words&#8230;. Love. Compassion. Wholeness.\u00a0 Light. Goodness.<\/p>\n<p>And of course&#8230; Cheeseburger.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it\u201d\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 \u00a0Thomas Jefferson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a little secret about me. (Well.\u00a0 Not for long&#8230;.) I have favorite words.\u00a0 For all sorts of different reasons. Some words, I like, because of what they mean.\u00a0 Love. Compassion.\u00a0 Wholeness.\u00a0 Light.\u00a0 Goodness.\u00a0 Cheeseburger.\u00a0\u00a0 You get the idea. But SOME words&#8230; I like for no good reason.\u00a0 Maybe it is the way they [&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-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","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=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}