{"id":546,"date":"2009-02-17T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=546"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:41","slug":"dear-snowdrops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Dear snowdrops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snowdrops1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303570087417299554\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 218px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/snowdrops1-205x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Thank you for flagging me down to stop and appreciate you in the middle of my crazy whir of nervousness the other day.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the invisible valentine of your downturned petals punctuated with a little green heart; I had to be on my knees in the muck to see that.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the lady passing by who paused to tell me how beautiful you were &#8211; I was thinking about her amazing smile the rest of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing your private patch of sun-dappled shade with me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for giving me the time beside you to remember that the universe will send me everything I need at just the right moment&#8230; a friend to hold my hand wordlessly as I wonder what&#8217;s happening to me&#8230; another to talk me off ledges&#8230; someone to gather my stories and worries and unedited truth like so many ingredients of an ancient family soup&#8230; another to collect my tears when I most need to cry.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for helping me hear the stars in my dreams calling me.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and thank you for an excuse to muddy my jeans.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for flagging me down to stop and appreciate you in the middle of my crazy whir of nervousness the other day. Thank you for the invisible valentine of your downturned petals punctuated with a little green heart; I had to be on my knees in the muck to see that. Thank you for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dear snowdrops<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546"}],"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=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}