{"id":174,"date":"2019-09-30T00:35:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-sunny-start\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T00:35:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T00:35:40","slug":"a-sunny-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-sunny-start\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sunny Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny, I woke up this morning with a sense of fulfilment, with the sun beaming through my window. I was immediately taken back to some time in the past when I felt like this before, a form of nostalgia. De ja vu if you will, only I&#8217;m wondering now what was different from every other morning I&#8217;ve woken up from that same bed.<\/p>\n<p>I got up, made myself a coffee and logged on. I just cleaned up my desktop shortcuts in a nice neat grouping fashion, and now find myself looking at the clear blue of the sky with some sort of sense of inspiration, riding on from that good feeling I had this morning. Yet with all this, something just doesn&#8217;t feel quite right. Maybe it&#8217;s that same question, &#8216;what should I do?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The colours outside seem so vibrant, bright variegated greens and seemingly bright shadows, naturally lit from the beaming rays, inviting to the eye as they&#8217;re blown around in the not-so-still breeze.\u00a0 Why then, when brought back to myself, does everything else I try to colour myself in feel like a duller shade. Maybe I just feel flat, I guess I do. Just seems strange that in the past in this situation things would have seemed&#8230; &#8216;brighter&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess the grass really is always greener (and brighter) on the other side&#8230; Time to go sit outside for a while.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny, I woke up this morning with a sense of fulfilment, with the sun beaming through my window. I was immediately taken back to some time in the past when I felt like this before, a form of nostalgia. De ja vu if you will, only I&#8217;m wondering now what was different from every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.thingsjoedoes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}