{"id":544,"date":"2014-06-23T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:18:59","slug":"finding-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/finding-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-545\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop.jpg\" alt=\"Robin Botie of Ithaca, New York, welcomes first day of summer\" width=\"1100\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop-768x170.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop-1024x227.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYStop-624x138.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Starting today, I will find a thousand things to be joyful about this summer.<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Petunias, wildflowers, the perfume of cut grass, crisp salads, dogs in life jackets, fireflies, campfires, berry-picking, polished toenails, green, the nightly frog chorus, the sun, thunderstorms, Cayuga Lake, afternoons on a boat with friends, sweet time \u2026<\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">When she wasn\u2019t feeling sick, every day was a party for my daughter. Every summer was an adventure. Marika didn\u2019t get enough summers. To honor her I will embrace every opportunity to laugh and have fun.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-546\" src=\"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/JOYSbottom-1024x227.jpg\" alt=\"Robin botie of Ithaca, New York, finds 1000 things to be joyful about this summer.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"245\" \/><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Starting today, I will find a thousand things to be joyful about this summer. Petunias, wildflowers, the perfume of cut grass, crisp salads, dogs in life jackets, fireflies, campfires, berry-picking, polished toenails, green, the nightly frog chorus, the sun, thunderstorms, Cayuga Lake, afternoons on a boat with friends, sweet time &hellip; When she wasn&rsquo;t [&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":[1],"tags":[169,170,173,172,171],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-finding-joy","tag-honoring-a-daughter","tag-laugh-and-have-fun","tag-summertime","tag-to-honor-a-child"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}