{"id":24397,"date":"2024-04-05T19:09:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=24397"},"modified":"2024-04-05T19:09:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:09:28","slug":"napowrimo-2024-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=24397","title":{"rendered":"NaPoWriMo 2024 Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napowrimo.net\/day-five-11\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NaPoWriMo.net<\/a> offered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/53677\/the-blessing-of-the-old-woman-the-tulip-and-the-dog\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a lovely poem<\/a> and idea as a prompt. Isn&#8217;t it better to see the tiny good things than to not see them or worse to never see them?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How lucky I am to be able<br \/>\nto fill the bird feeders<br \/>\nwhile the chickadees and cardinals<br \/>\nwhistle waiting in the shrubs.<br \/>\nToday I thought &#8211; how lucky<br \/>\ndespite doing pretty menial work<br \/>\nI am able to stay home now<br \/>\n&#8220;retired&#8221; so I can paint<br \/>\nand spend time with my mother<br \/>\nI can fill the pantry and<br \/>\nenjoy some snacks and go out<br \/>\nto enjoy the clouds.<br \/>\nMaybe each day, I&#8217;ll<br \/>\ncatch some words<br \/>\nlured by hot coffee or wine.<br \/>\nTo every life may come some joy<br \/>\nsmall moments not always shiny<br \/>\nand if I&#8217;m lucky enough<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll get another chance<br \/>\nto know how each day<br \/>\ncan be a blessing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3022-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3022-1.jpg\" title=\"Screenshot announcing two breaking news reports of an earthquake centered in NJ somewhere between a 4.7 and a 5.5 (4.8 was the final tally)\" width=\"500\" height=\"493\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3022-1.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3022-1-1536x1514.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3022-1-2048x2019.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How lucky I am to be able \u2022 to fill the bird feeders \u2022 while the chickadees and cardinals \u2022 whistle waiting in the shrubs. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=24397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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},"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[329,768,13,799,65,147],"tags":[235,202,276,1298,541,411,105,192],"class_list":["post-24397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds-and-chickens","category-deadline","category-do-the-work","category-gratitude","category-napowrimo","category-poetry-and-lyrics","tag-birds","tag-dothework","tag-gratitude","tag-luck","tag-napowrimo","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-process"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mstdn.social\/@mbfrezon\/112221131859173579","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/IMG_3022-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-6lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24400,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24397\/revisions\/24400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}