{"id":474,"date":"2009-06-07T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:11:54","slug":"happy-lucky-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Happy Lucky Idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kingbird1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344428234336232162\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/kingbird1-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I was feeling pretty sorry for myself yesterday&#8230; it was my birthday and it poured rain all day and there was no cake and I had to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Can you hear that tiny little violin playing there in the background?<br \/><\/em><br \/>The day after, a couple hours in the sunshine, a walk on the beach, the neighborhood kingbird, and this little poem and all is right with the world again.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>If you have time to chatter<br \/>Read books<br \/>If you have time to read<br \/>Walk into mountain, desert and ocean<br \/>If you have time to walk<br \/>sing songs and dance<br \/>If you have time to dance<br \/>Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot<br \/><\/em><br \/>&#8211;Nanao Sakaki<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was feeling pretty sorry for myself yesterday&#8230; it was my birthday and it poured rain all day and there was no cake and I had to work&#8230; Can you hear that tiny little violin playing there in the background?The day after, a couple hours in the sunshine, a walk on the beach, the neighborhood &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=474\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Lucky Idiot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}