{"id":176658896,"date":"2013-05-13T00:17:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T16:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/?p=176658896"},"modified":"2013-05-13T00:17:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T16:17:17","slug":"gratitude-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/05\/13\/gratitude-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"gratitude plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about <a href=\"http:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/02\/19\/gratitude\/\">gratitude<\/a> before. And, well, I&#8217;m writing about it again.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;m grateful for&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 16px;\">family: even though they are far away, they have unique ways of assuring me that I am loved and cared for. Also, they make me laugh in ways that no one else can! (Who else &#8220;gets&#8221; your family like your family?) I&#8217;m especially grateful for my mum, and not just because it is Mother&#8217;s Day today. The older I get, the more I seem to understand all she&#8217;s done for me. Funny how that works. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/li>\n<li>sunshine: I was finally able to sit by the pool today &#8212; for the first time in weeks, since The Boot entered my life. It felt\u00a0<strong>so good.<\/strong> I wanted to soak up as much Vitamin D as I could.<\/li>\n<li>music: I had a bit of a slump this afternoon\/evening as I felt some strange ennui that I couldn&#8217;t describe. I was missing places I&#8217;d never lived or called home. Places like Sydney, Paris, and San Francisco. It was unusual. I turned on some music (thank you, Spotify!) and before long I was singing and dancing around my living room &#8212; Boot on, of course! &#8212; to Justin Timberlake and Darius Rucker. Within a few hours I was feeling better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dohanews.co\/post\/50255816965\/nepalese-teacher-accused-of-insulting-islam-released\">Mercy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>silence: it is when we are away from the noise and the distraction and the fray that we can finally hear the truths deep inside our hearts&#8230; if we are willing to listen, that is. Hearing and listening are two different things, but I find it so much easier to do both when I&#8217;m im silence. Even just 10 minutes makes me feel more <a href=\"http:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/05\/09\/pro-rata\/\">whole<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written about gratitude before. And, well, I&#8217;m writing about it again. Today, I&#8217;m grateful for&#8230; family: even though they are far away, they have unique ways of assuring me that I am loved and cared for. Also, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/2013\/05\/13\/gratitude-plus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,96,506,12,507,327],"class_list":["post-176658896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-gratitude","tag-mercy","tag-music","tag-silence","tag-sun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3rl4S-bXf32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176658896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176658896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176658896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176658898,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176658896\/revisions\/176658898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176658896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176658896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adriennemichetti.com\/truth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176658896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}