{"id":288,"date":"2010-02-26T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T19:22:04","slug":"live-your-best-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/26\/live-your-best-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Your Best Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan and Juliet,<\/p>\n<p>I was reading the Oprah magazine (yes, that&#8217;s right, but at least I wasn&#8217;t watching it and I WASN&#8217;T eating bon bons), and I came to a page titled &#8220;Live Your Best Life&#8221; with the following quote by <em>William Henry Channing<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To live content with small means;<br \/>\nto seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;<br \/>\nto be worthy, not respectable;<br \/>\nand wealthy, not rich;<br \/>\nto study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly&#8230;<br \/>\nto listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open heart;<br \/>\nawait occasions, hurry never&#8230;<br \/>\nthis is my symphony.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I hope this inspires you.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope you see how beautiful life is.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope you live your<em> <\/em>best life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I love you, mom<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_292\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-292\" title=\"P1020161-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1020161-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan watching the snow fall\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1020161-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1020161-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan watching the snow fall<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan and Juliet, I was reading the Oprah magazine (yes, that&#8217;s right, but at least I wasn&#8217;t watching it and I WASN&#8217;T eating bon bons), and I came to a page titled &#8220;Live Your Best Life&#8221; with the following quote by William Henry Channing: To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-juliet","category-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ryanandjuliet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}