{"id":1035,"date":"2008-12-01T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:14:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:14:13","slug":"carpe-diem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/12\/carpe-diem\/","title":{"rendered":"Carpe diem!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carpe diem! &#8211; usually translated &#8220;Sieze the day&#8221; and that&#8217;s good for my purposes today.<\/p>\n<p>My mother emailed me on seeing yesterday&#8217;s post of my Christmas things and asked me where was the skiing mother rabbit?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/RabbitA500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten her!  I usually have her out all winter, not just for Christmas, so she is not stored in my Christmas boxes, but on a shelf with a few treasured dishes that I rotate when the spirit moves me.  <\/p>\n<p>She was originally my mother&#8217;s, but given to me some time ago.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/RabbitB500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What I love is that her expression and attire says, &#8220;Heck with the housework, I&#8217;m going skiing!!!&#8221; &#8211; and no time to be wasted taking off the apron &#8211; strap on the skis and go.<\/p>\n<p>Digging her out of the cupboard and seeing her again was a wonderful reminder.  I don&#8217;t know the origin and can&#8217;t remember where I recently read it but it brought to mind these words which I needed to hear &#8211; AND HEED:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can&#8217;t change yesterday.  You can ruin today by worrying about tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Dec08\/RabbitBurn500333.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" height=\"333\" style=\"width: 500px; height: 333px\" title=\"\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Carpe diem &#8211; Sieze the Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carpe diem! &#8211; usually translated &#8220;Sieze the day&#8221; and that&#8217;s good for my purposes today. My mother emailed me on seeing yesterday&#8217;s post of my Christmas things and asked me where was the skiing mother rabbit? I had forgotten her! I usually have her out all winter, not just for Christmas, so she is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22397,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/22397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}