{"id":4272,"date":"2015-07-26T23:49:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T03:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4272"},"modified":"2015-07-26T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T03:55:43","slug":"surprisingly-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=4272","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deddeeeer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4274\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deddeeeer.jpg\" alt=\"deddeeeer\" width=\"800\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deddeeeer.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/deddeeeer-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pineyconey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4275\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pineyconey.jpg\" alt=\"pineyconey\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pineyconey.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/pineyconey-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nuttyish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4276\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nuttyish.jpg\" alt=\"nuttyish\" width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nuttyish.jpg 800w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/nuttyish-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Certain things surprise me.<\/p>\n<p>Surprise CAN be good.\u00a0 Sometimes not.\u00a0 And then there are the ones which simply make you go\u2026 . Hmmmmmm.<\/p>\n<p>Like I saw this little empty nut shell on the ground today.\u00a0 I can\u2019t image who might have eaten it.\u00a0 You see, our squirrels are so fat from eating the corn we put out in our deer trough, they can scarcely move.<\/p>\n<p>It must be an old nut.<br \/>\nI am an old nut.\u00a0 This part does not surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Pine cones seem like they should only be on the trees in the winter time to me.\u00a0 But today, I saw a lot of pine cones, on a lot of our trees.<\/p>\n<p>It just seemed wrong somehow.\u00a0 Like they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.<br \/>\nI am frequently in the wrong place\u2026. at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s another thing that surprises me.\u00a0 I am\u2026 mostly every day\u2026 finding a new song that I really like.\u00a0 Or one which I have never heard before.\u00a0 There are a lot of talented people out there creating good music.\u00a0 I am listening to Yellow Ostrich right now and&#8230;. I am starting to get a little crazy about them.<\/p>\n<p>I get a little crazy about a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it.\u00a0 The story of my life.<br \/>\nI am an old nut\u2026 who is frequently in the wrong place at the wrong time\u2026. and I am starting to get a little crazy.<\/p>\n<p>But something tell me I am in good company.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Marcus Aurelius<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Soren Kierkegaard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Certain things surprise me. Surprise CAN be good.\u00a0 Sometimes not.\u00a0 And then there are the ones which simply make you go\u2026 . Hmmmmmm. Like I saw this little empty nut shell on the ground today.\u00a0 I can\u2019t image who might have eaten it.\u00a0 You see, our squirrels are so fat from eating the corn [&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-4272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272","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=4272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4281,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4272\/revisions\/4281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}