{"id":231,"date":"2007-07-21T19:22:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2007-07-21T23:25:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T09:25:59","slug":"the-stara-fresh-perspective-on-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"The Star<br>A fresh perspective on things."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wham! A rock thrown up by a lawnmower slammed into our windshield. A little crack formed, right at eye-level on the driverside, and Andy and I started to lament and complain unhappily. My thoughts about stopping, confronting the guy and trying to make his insurance pay got interrupted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A star! A star!&#8221; Leilani called out from the backseat. I looked again. The crack looked indeed like a star. When Leilani started singing &#8220;Twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what you are&#8230;&#8221; the rest of my anger melted away. <\/p>\n<p>Every time now when we get into the car Leilani notes happily that the pretty star is still there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wham! A rock thrown up by a lawnmower slammed into our windshield. A little crack formed, right at eye-level on the driverside, and Andy and I started to lament and complain unhappily. My thoughts about stopping, confronting the guy and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}