{"id":1341,"date":"2005-04-19T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1341","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walk to school nowadays, because not only have I become to appreciate \\&#8221;good\\&#8221; weather, I also dislike being stuffed in a bus full of grumpy people.<\/p>\n<p>As I was walking though, I noticed all these random rows of tulips, roses, daffodils, and other flowers planted in front yards.  Did they just appear that randomly?  I don\\&#8217;t recall seeing any sort of color a few weeks ago.  On campus, it is clear that there overturned dirt near the Fence was obviously a result of gardening.  But the surprise of color is something.  A sort of yearning to share a rebirth.  A pleasant surprise on my less-traveled path.<\/p>\n<p>How often do we find serendipity in our lives?  Despite the fact that I tend to schedule my whole day in the morning, I always leave room for the spontaneous change of events.  A few weeks ago, someone asked me casually if I wanted to visit Seattle.  Even though it never happened, at first, I balked&#8230;it seemed too spontaneous, ditching everything I had \\&#8221;planned\\&#8221;.  But suddenly the thought of going somewhere without knowing what I would do there became appealing.<\/p>\n<p>So when will the moment arrive when I would be willing to get in a car and start driving&#8230;with no final destination?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walk to school nowadays, because not only have I become to appreciate \\&#8221;good\\&#8221; weather, I also dislike being stuffed in a bus full of grumpy people. As I was walking though, I noticed all these random rows of tulips, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1341\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}