{"id":29,"date":"2013-06-29T03:07:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T03:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2013-06-29T03:07:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T03:07:02","slug":"enjoy-life-and-always-remember-there-is-so-much-more-to-do-and-see-ride-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy life and always remember there is so much more to do and see&#8230;ride the train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Train of Life<br \/>\nSome folks ride the train of life<br \/>\nLooking out the rear,<br \/>\nWatching miles of life roll by,<br \/>\nAnd marking every year.<\/p>\n<p>They sit in sad remembrance,<br \/>\nOf wasted days gone by,<br \/>\nAnd curse their life for what it was,<br \/>\nAnd hang their head and cry.<br \/>\nBut I don&#8217;t concern myself with that,<br \/>\nI took a different vent,<br \/>\nI look forward to what life holds,<br \/>\nAnd not what has been spent.<br \/>\nSo strap me to the engine,<br \/>\nAs securely as I can be,<br \/>\nI want to be out on the front,<br \/>\nTo see what I can see.<br \/>\nI want to feel the winds of change,<br \/>\nBlowing in my face,<br \/>\nI want to see what life unfolds,<br \/>\nAs I move from place to place.<br \/>\nI want to see what&#8217;s coming up,<br \/>\nNot looking at the past,<br \/>\nLife&#8217;s too short for yesterdays,<br \/>\nIt moves along too fast.<br \/>\nSo if the ride gets bumpy,<br \/>\nWhile you are looking back,<br \/>\nGo up front, and you may find,<br \/>\nYour life has jumped the track.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all right to remember,<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s part of history,<br \/>\nBut up front&#8217;s where it&#8217;s happening,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s so much mystery.<br \/>\nThe enjoyment of living,<br \/>\nIs not where we have been,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s looking ever forward,<br \/>\nTo another year and ten.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s searching all the byways,<br \/>\nNever should you refrain,<br \/>\nFor if you want to live your life,<br \/>\nYou gotta drive the train!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train of Life Some folks ride the train of life Looking out the rear, Watching miles of life roll by, And marking every year. They sit in sad remembrance, Of wasted days gone by, And curse their life for what it was, And hang their head and cry. But I don&#8217;t concern myself with that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes-thoughts-and-more-to-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}