{"id":228,"date":"2008-03-24T14:35:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:18:18","slug":"lighten-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2008\/03\/lighten-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighten up"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.   GKChesterton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I recently saw that quote on a website that uses one of those random quote generators and it keeps coming to mind.  It makes me think of beautiful, happy, angels &#8211; flying for the joy of flying and going about the business of God with loving hearts.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I want to do &#8211; everyday &#8211; be about the business God gives me through my talent &#8211; with joy, love and a lightness of heart.<\/p>\n<p>Often by the end of the day I&#8217;m instead feeling more like the saying that goes <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp when you&#8217;re up to your ass in alligators.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the benefits of pets is that spending time with them forces &#8220;lightness&#8221; and &#8220;lightheartedness&#8221; into my day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Mar08\/AnnKarl350364.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Karl and I\" height=\"364\" style=\"width: 350px; height: 364px\" title=\"Karl and I\" class=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. GKChesterton I recently saw that quote on a website that uses one of those random quote generators and it keeps coming to mind. It makes me think of beautiful, happy, angels &#8211; flying for the joy of flying and going about the business of God with loving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22487,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/22487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}