{"id":5524,"date":"2015-04-14T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2015-04-14T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T01:57:34","slug":"forget-the-forecast-live-likes-its-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/forget-the-forecast-live-likes-its-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u201cForget the Forecast, Live Like\u2019s It\u2019s Spring.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>80 degrees last week, snow today\u2026?!\u00a0 What the heck?!\u00a0 Since when does it snow on spring break?\u00a0 Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>I love springtime and I have been so looking forward to sunshine, flowers, blossoms\u2026did I say sunshine? All I know it that sunshine makes me so happy! I agree with Robin Williams quote:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cSpring is nature\u2019s way of saying, \u2018Let\u2019s Party\u2019.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s definitely a bummer when you look out your window and see snowflakes coming down like crazy. But I suppose it\u2019s a good analogy of what like is like\u2026.some days you have sunshine and then all of the sudden from nowhere it starts raining and snowing\u2026and when it does we only have a few choices, we can shut down and lock ourselves inside until the rain or snow stop, we can grab a coat and umbrella and head outside and not let it slow us down, or we can run outside in the rain and jump in the mud puddles and build a snowman. \u00a0It&#8217;s up to us how we decide to face the rain and the snow that falls into our lives&#8230;it&#8217;s all a matter of how we choose to think about it&#8230;we can focus on the bad or we can choose to see the good&#8230;so as I look out my window at the falling snow I will no longer focus on the lack of sunshine and the freezing flower buds and instead I will focus on the beautiful and much needed moisture it is bringing with it&#8230;which will mean more water for the lakes, which will mean better boating for the summer when the sun finally comes out to play&#8230;you see, it&#8217;s all good \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0!<\/p>\n<p>Idea of the day:\u00a0 While we all wait for sunshine, decide to be the sunshine in someone else\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>SMILES!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>80 degrees last week, snow today\u2026?!\u00a0 What the heck?!\u00a0 Since when does it snow on spring break?\u00a0 Yikes! I love springtime and I have been so looking forward to sunshine, flowers, blossoms\u2026did I say sunshine? All I know it that sunshine makes me so happy! I agree with Robin Williams quote: \u201cSpring is nature\u2019s way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[168,46,63,6272,1447,504,1086,224,515,178,1105,55,180,464,6270,1254,53,6269,217,1482,349,134,153,1520,6268,6271,145,81,297,2952,685,149,804,608,207,516,281,2534],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adversity","tag-attitude","tag-blessings","tag-blossoms","tag-boating","tag-choice","tag-choose","tag-confidence","tag-control","tag-faith","tag-flowers","tag-happiness","tag-happy","tag-joy","tag-lake","tag-lake-powell","tag-motivation","tag-mud-puddles","tag-negative","tag-outcome","tag-peace","tag-perspective","tag-positive","tag-rain","tag-robin-williams","tag-see-the-good","tag-service","tag-smile","tag-snow","tag-snowman","tag-spring","tag-success","tag-summer","tag-sunshine","tag-surprise","tag-thoughts","tag-trials","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5525,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}