{"id":4070,"date":"2015-07-02T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T02:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4070"},"modified":"2015-07-02T23:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T03:58:12","slug":"we-do-because-we-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4070","title":{"rendered":"We do. Because we can."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4072\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canit.jpg\" alt=\"canit\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canit.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love music.\u00a0 Songs\u2026. songs\u2026 songs.<br \/>\nBut.<br \/>\nYou know.. some songs just don\u2019t make sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I could put time in a bottle\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I would put a lot of things in bottles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like rockets.\u00a0 But not time.\u00a0 Time is here to be all spent up.\u00a0 Wrung out like a sponge.\u00a0 Soak up every drop\u2026. and wring it out and soak it through&#8230; all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Or\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be cruel to be kind\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bunk.\u00a0 Bunk. Total bunk.\u00a0 Who writes these songs?<br \/>\nYou DO NOT have to be cruel to be kind.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let anyone fool you about that one.\u00a0 No Sirrrreeeeee.\u00a0\u00a0 The kindest people I know&#8230;..\u00a0 do not have a cruel bone in their bodies.\u00a0 Heck. They even dream about nice things\u2026 like fluffy clouds\u2026. and cars filled with a herd of colorful lambs\u2026<br \/>\nIt takes a big heart to be kind.<\/p>\n<p>These are both big on my to-do lists.\u00a0 Especially for my upcoming Fourth of July Resolution List&#8230;. &#8230;. if I had such a thing. Back to the To-Do&#8217;s.<br \/>\n1.\u00a0 Living each moment of time.\u00a0 Fully.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 Being kind in each one of those moments.\u00a0 No matter.<\/p>\n<p>Every time we fill ourselves with the spirit of loving kindness\u2026.. a little ugliness \u2026. a little bit of the despicable is removed from the world.<\/p>\n<p>And along with that\u2026 if we live in the spirit of love\u2026. our lives become fuller\u2026\u00a0 and our souls fill up with the better of it all.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>&#8212;\u00a0 Swami Sivananda<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love music.\u00a0 Songs\u2026. songs\u2026 songs. But. You know.. some songs just don\u2019t make sense to me. \u201cIf I could put time in a bottle\u2026.\u201d I would put a lot of things in bottles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Like rockets.\u00a0 But not time.\u00a0 Time is here to be all spent up.\u00a0 Wrung out like a sponge.\u00a0 Soak up every [&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-4070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070","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=4070"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4070\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}