{"id":379669,"date":"2012-07-31T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/31\/happiness-blossoms\/"},"modified":"2012-07-31T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T22:38:00","slug":"happiness-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/31\/happiness-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Happiness-Blooms.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Happiness-Blooms-225x300.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This morning I took the dog for our daily exercise regime and couldn\u2019t resist this enormous bloom on a stalk that stood above my five-foot-two frame.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">I felt as if I was looking at this wonder through the eyes of a mesmerized toddler.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">This is literally stopping to smell the roses, I thought.<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">I wiped the sweat from my brow and smiled as I snapped a few photos with my handy dandy iPhone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span>Newly energized, I finished the jog home.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">How do you stop to smell the roses, either literally or figuratively?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Soon<\/span>&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I took the dog for our daily exercise regime and couldn\u2019t resist this enormous bloom on a stalk that stood above my five-foot-two frame. I felt as if I was looking at this wonder through the eyes of a mesmerized toddler. This is literally stopping to smell the roses, I thought. I wiped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4355,"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":[406,407,161,233,408,385,409,69,410],"class_list":["post-379669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blossoms","tag-flowers","tag-happiness","tag-happy-happens","tag-jogging-and-walking-for-exercise","tag-stop-to-smell-the-roses","tag-summer-blossoms","tag-the-five-facets","tag-walking-the-dog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Happiness-Blooms.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379669","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=379669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}