Back to playing by the rules.<\/p>\n
This wasn't the word I had originally planned to use. That word, sadly, lost in the recesses of my mind, buried under stories yet untold – and probably also stories told over and over to Rida despite the fact that she sighs repeatedly when I start them. (Some of those are on purpose, of course)<\/p>\n
So I had to get a new word. I asked Rida about 4:00 if she had her word already – no, I hadn't checked the site, because it's been a busy day. She said that she had. I asked if it was my word – because occasionally she does that, preempts me, and I have to find a new word.<\/p>\n
But not today.<\/p>\n
S is for Serendipity.<\/p>\n
: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for; also : an instance of this<\/p>\n
I love the word. I love the phenomenon. Too often it happens and people don't even take the time to realize it. But we're all too quick to call attention to bad fortune – rain on the parade, if it you will. Take the time to stop and appreciate the cool breeze, too, people. And that $100 bill dropped on the ground in front of you….bonus.<\/p>\n
–Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back to playing by the rules.<\/p>\n
This wasn't the word I had originally planned to use. That word, sadly, lost in the recesses of my mind, buried under stories yet untold – and probably also stories told over and over to Rida despite the fact that she sighs repeatedly when I start them. (Some of those are on purpose, of course)<\/p>\n
So I had to get…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}