{"id":351,"date":"2013-09-02T03:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T03:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2013-09-02T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:18:44","slug":"dandelion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Dandelion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">Do you remember that feeling you would get as a kid when you saw a dandelion? <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">Excitedly y<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">ou immediately ran to pick it up, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">you thought of a wish, and then blew <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">it. The smile of comfort and belief that your special wish would come true lit up the skies. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">You felt the hope the dandelion represented for you. See, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">that&#8217;s how I love every day. That comfort, that smile, that belief that all the wonderful wishes will light up my world. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">Fill my heart with hope.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">Remember taking a deep breath but pausing right before blowing the dandelion just <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">to rethink your wish. Then blowing with all your might s<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">o <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">all <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">the seeds scatter around and along with those seeds spread your hopes and dreams. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">This is what you need to remember and hold on to. Don&#8217;t let negativity or disappointment stand in the way of your love, hopes and dreams. Let your seeds scatter all around you and lift high. Keep your pure childhood beliefs alive. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #37404e;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;\">Wishing the seeds spread love all around you.\u00a0<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember that feeling you would get as a kid when you saw a dandelion? Excitedly you immediately ran to pick it up, you thought of a wish, and then blew it. The smile of comfort and belief that your special wish would come true lit up the skies. You felt the hope the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-and-in-between"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carasthoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}