{"id":1102,"date":"2016-01-04T08:10:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:26:20","slug":"time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Make Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1103 size-full\" title=\"Time to Make Changes\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SukiChanges-2.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, Photoshops her inherited Havanese dog into a statue.\" width=\"2520\" height=\"1142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SukiChanges-2.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SukiChanges-2-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SukiChanges-2-768x348.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SukiChanges-2-1024x464.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/SukiChanges-2-624x283.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2520px) 100vw, 2520px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a New Year, Suki,\u201d I said to my dog, \u201cand we&#8217;re gonna make some changes around here.\u201d I tell all my ideas to my sweet, inherited dog. Cocking her head east and west, she listens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cFirst of all, we\u2019re going to clear out every cabinet and closet. And we\u2019re gonna give away or get rid of whatever doesn\u2019t give us joy. We\u2019re gonna reinvent ourselves. The Internet is bursting with advice on how to change our lives. Our attitudes, our outlook, it all has to improve. I mean, <a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/healingfrom-loss-off-comfort-road\" target=\"_blank\">who are we now<\/a>? Where are we going? We need to start seeing ourselves in a different way. Be bold. No more concealing our feelings. We\u2019re going to speak our minds more, and talk about our girl Marika more. We\u2019re done hiding at home, gorging on cake. We\u2019ll eat less and exercise more. We\u2019ll play more. Read more. We need to laugh more, and sleep more. Yeah. You and me. <a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/grief\" target=\"_blank\">Big changes<\/a>. We\u2019re gonna get up every morning at six and hike five times a week, even in the snow. What do you think, Suki? Can we do this?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cSuki?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>You can reinvent your life but can you reinvent your self?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a New Year, Suki,&rdquo; I said to my dog, &ldquo;and we&rsquo;re gonna make some changes around here.&rdquo; I tell all my ideas to my sweet, inherited dog. Cocking her head east and west, she listens. &ldquo;First of all, we&rsquo;re going to clear out every cabinet and closet. And we&rsquo;re gonna give away or get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[702],"tags":[717,714,720,719,715,716,718,721],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-702","tag-changes","tag-changing-your-life","tag-laugh-more","tag-listening-to-my-dog","tag-new-year-resolutions","tag-reinventing-yourself","tag-talking-to-my-dog","tag-time-to-make-changes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}