{"id":7424,"date":"2016-10-24T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T23:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=7424"},"modified":"2016-10-22T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T05:22:34","slug":"no-place-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/no-place-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"No Place To Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>No Place to Go<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 &#8211; (by Edgar A. Guest)<\/p>\n<p>The happiest nights<br \/>\nI ever know<br \/>\nAre those when I\u2019ve<br \/>\nNo place to go,<br \/>\nWhen the missus says<br \/>\nWhen the day is through:<br \/>\n\u201cTonight we don\u2019t have<br \/>\nA thing to do.\u201d<br \/>\nOh, the joy of it,<br \/>\nAnd the peace untold<br \/>\nOf sitting \u2019round<br \/>\nIn my slippers old,<br \/>\nWith\u00a0[music and book]<\/p>\n<p>In my easy chair,<br \/>\nKnowing I needn\u2019t<br \/>\nGo anywhere!<br \/>\nNeedn\u2019t hurry<br \/>\nMy evening meal<br \/>\nNor force the smiles<br \/>\nThat I do not feel,<br \/>\nBut grab a book<br \/>\nFrom a near-by shelf,<br \/>\nAnd drop all sham<br \/>\nAnd be myself.<br \/>\nOh, the charm of it,<br \/>\nAnd the comfort rare;<br \/>\nNothing on this earth<br \/>\nWith it can compare;<br \/>\nI am sorry for him<br \/>\nWho doesn\u2019t know<br \/>\nThe joy of having<br \/>\nNo place to go.<\/p>\n<p>What a great message in that poem! It reminds us not to fill our evenings so full of activities that we can\u2019t simply sit back and enjoy the beauty of having no place to go. When we allow for that we can take time to develop a talent or talk with a family member or simply relax and meditate. So much good can come when we make time for our heads to stop racing and simply sit still for a little bit at the end of the day. Allow yourself time to think about what has gone on in your day, what lessons you learned, and how you want to improve tomorrow.<br \/>\nHave a beautiful day everyone!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Place to Go\u00a0 &#8211; (by Edgar A. Guest) The happiest nights I ever know Are those when I\u2019ve No place to go, When the missus says When the day is through: \u201cTonight we don\u2019t have A thing to do.\u201d Oh, the joy of it, And the peace untold Of sitting \u2019round In my slippers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6837,"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":[6510,395,536,91,3098,11480,1750,1515,224,11485,1433,163,96,11483,3493,41,67,11488,7,364,4691,11487,378,464,38,232,867,2390,53,3145,11481,349,143,1665,8446,1196,544,519,112,11479,98,11482,11484,11486],"class_list":["post-7424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-allow","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-business","tag-change","tag-changes","tag-charm","tag-comfort","tag-compare","tag-confidence","tag-consider-your-day","tag-contemplate","tag-courage","tag-culture","tag-develop-a-talent","tag-edgar-a-guest","tag-entrepreneur","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-fell-sorry-for","tag-future","tag-goal","tag-happiest","tag-how-will-you-improve","tag-improve","tag-joy","tag-leadership","tag-lessons","tag-life-lessons","tag-meditate","tag-motivation","tag-night","tag-no-place-to-go","tag-peace","tag-poem","tag-pray","tag-read-a-book","tag-relationship","tag-relationships","tag-self-esteem","tag-self-improvement","tag-sham","tag-talent","tag-the-joy-of-having-no-place-to-go","tag-visit-with-family","tag-what-did-you-learn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424","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=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7425,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/7425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}