{"id":104,"date":"2014-03-27T01:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T01:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/79gifts.com\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-03-27T01:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T01:08:09","slug":"now-is-the-winter-of-our-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/now-is-the-winter-of-our-discontent\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is the winter of our discontent&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Now is the winter of our discontent&#8221; &#8211;<\/em> Richard the Third<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know. \u00a0Out of context, not what he meant or was talking about. \u00a0But seriously. \u00a0I feel like George RR Martin had it right when he kept telling us <em>&#8220;Winter is Coming.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Got it. \u00a0We&#8217;re good. \u00a0Can we move along now and try another season?<\/p>\n<p>I am so over this winter &#8211; and I LOVE winter. \u00a0I usually feel GREAT in the winter. \u00a0Healthy. \u00a0Cold, but healthy. \u00a0But I&#8217;ve got a case of ennui (or maybe SAD, but definitely not cabin fever) \u00a0that I can&#8217;t shake &#8211; and I am not the only one. \u00a0I talk to people every day who are feeling the same way &#8211; take a look at your Facebook stream and I am sure you know plenty of folks in the same boat &#8211; if you have managed to avoid this feeling I applaud you and would like to know your secret (those of you living in warmer climes or on vacation at same need not reply&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>So<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I choose to believe that winter will not last forever.<\/li>\n<li>I choose to believe that someday I will not need my gloves.<\/li>\n<li>I choose to believe that the grass will be green again and not just muddy grey<\/li>\n<li>I choose to believe that someday I will wear only one pair of socks. \u00a0(Please!)<\/li>\n<li>I choose to believe that one day, in the not so terribly distant future, I will wake up and the sun will be shining, I will not be able to see my breath and I will want to spend more than 10 minutes outside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And because I believe, I keep moving forward. \u00a0I hope the same for you &#8211; may tomorrow be the day that we wake up to sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?&#8221; &#8211; Shelley<\/p>\n<p>Smiles.<\/p>\n<p>Lise<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now is the winter of our discontent&#8221; &#8211; Richard the Third I know, I know. \u00a0Out of context, not what he meant or was talking about. \u00a0But seriously. \u00a0I feel like George RR Martin had it right when he kept telling us &#8220;Winter is Coming.&#8221;\u00a0Got it. \u00a0We&#8217;re good. \u00a0Can we move along now and try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.79gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}