{"id":883,"date":"2008-02-02T02:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:29:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:29:26","slug":"tell-me-a-joke-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=883","title":{"rendered":"Tell me a joke, quick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plumisland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161840533896433362\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/plumisland-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">&#8220;To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; to study hard, to think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.&#8221; &#8211;William Henry Channing<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on that &#8220;to bear all cheerfully&#8221; the past week or so.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Common, ordinary, everyday sorts of troubles, but finding the way through without giving in to the urge to be unnecessarily cranky is something of a challenge. Mostly, I feel like sticking my head in the oven!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I think I find meaning in this quote today because it speaks to personal choice and responsibility for one&#8217;s own happiness. A challenge for many of us, yet so simple for some others of us.<\/p>\n<p>Little by little I&#8217;m learning enough about myself to keep my emotions mostly even and I find that little things, even big things, no longer hold the same power over me that they might have at one time. Sometimes I don&#8217;t do so well with that, though! It takes practice, I think, for me to feel relaxed and flexible enough mentally to &#8216;go with the flow&#8217; when the universe seems to have other plans for me. Laughter is my way around that crankiness&#8230; and lots of ice-cream.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody know a good joke or two.. to cheer me?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; to study hard, to think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=883\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tell me a joke, quick!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3292,"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\/883"}],"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=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}