{"id":4042,"date":"2015-06-28T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T03:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2015-06-28T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T03:57:08","slug":"the-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"The post."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lampytrees.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4044\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lampytrees.jpg\" alt=\"lampytrees\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lampytrees.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/lampytrees-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes.\u00a0 Things do not always go as we hope, or wish, or dream.\u00a0 But the day in and day out of it\u2026. is what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much\u2026 every day.\u00a0 Sometimes others don&#8217;t want what we want.\u00a0 That too.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes there are no bells and whistles, or sparklies, or pink unicorns, dag nab it.\u00a0 It is reminiscent of watching reruns.<\/p>\n<p>But it is this moment.\u00a0 What we have.\u00a0 Not that which is past, or that to come.\u00a0 All we have is the now.<\/p>\n<p>And the best we can do, in any given moment\u2026. is to be our best.\u00a0 To be true and authentic about life, and about living.\u00a0 Listen. Watch. Learn. Act.\u00a0 Lift up our voices.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it what we should do\u2026 it is what we must do.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Buddha<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Whether it&#8217;s the best of times or the worst of times, it&#8217;s the only time we&#8217;ve got.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong> Art Buchwald<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes.\u00a0 Things do not always go as we hope, or wish, or dream.\u00a0 But the day in and day out of it\u2026. is what happens. Pretty much\u2026 every day.\u00a0 Sometimes others don&#8217;t want what we want.\u00a0 That too. Sometimes there are no bells and whistles, or sparklies, or pink unicorns, dag nab it.\u00a0 It is [&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-4042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042","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=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4047,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions\/4047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}