{"id":379642,"date":"2012-10-07T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/07\/well-color-me-happy\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T13:51:00","slug":"well-color-me-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/07\/well-color-me-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Well Color Me Happy!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:f><\/v:formulas> <\/o:lock><\/v:path><\/v:stroke><\/span><\/span><\/v:shapetype> <\/w:wrap><\/v:imagedata><\/span><\/span><\/v:shape>I was hurrying through the Dollar Store, in search of a tiara to give a friend who had been fighting turning fifty.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Nothing like a little royal treatment to make someone feel special.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This coloring book practically jumped off the shelf at me.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I paused and then smiled as the memories of me\u2014prone on the floor, carefully outlining and coloring Bozo the clown\u2014came to mind.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I purchased the Doodle Book and a box of crayons.<\/span><\/div>\n

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For my friend.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Only days before I had shared with her this segment of my blog, and encouraged her to read Cooking Up a Little Happiness<\/span><\/a><\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I inscribed this message on the inside cover:<\/span><\/div>\n

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Silly as this may seem, I saw the cover of this coloring book and it made me smile for a time when I colored with great adoration and wonder\u2026 Happy happened.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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So, just a little reminder to color your world happy\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

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When was the last time you colored your world happy?<\/span><\/div>\n

Soon\u2026<\/span><\/span>
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p.s. After I titled this piece, I recognized the Pretty Woman<\/i> quote. That there\u2019s a bonus smile.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was hurrying through the Dollar Store, in search of a tiara to give a friend who had been fighting turning fifty. Nothing like a little royal treatment to make someone feel special. This coloring book practically jumped off the shelf at me. I paused and then smiled as the memories of me\u2014prone on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[316,491,492,493,494,495,317,161,270,496,320,497,498],"class_list":["post-379642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happyhappens","tag-bozo-the-clown","tag-coloring-book","tag-crayons","tag-doodle-book","tag-fiftieth-birthday","tag-finding-happiness-in-your-day","tag-happiness","tag-middle-aged","tag-pretty-woman","tag-random-happiness","tag-turning-50","tag-well-color-me-happy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Coloring-Book.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}