{"id":1887,"date":"2006-09-17T18:07:23","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2006-09-17T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T01:07:23","slug":"normalcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"Normalcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is normal anymore?  Is that what we want to eventually strive to be?  Is that what happiness is meant to be?  A house with a white picket fence and the subdued drama?<\/p>\n<p>I saw <i>Little Miss Sunshine<\/i> today.  (Great movie.)  But the pitch is a dysfunctional family going to a beauty pageant.  But wait, <i>dysfunctional<\/i>? In the end, aren&#8217;t they as happy as any other &#8220;normal&#8221; family?<\/p>\n<p>In the sixth grade, my teacher said her motto was &#8220;don&#8217;t be normal.  be different.&#8221;  I believed Miss Wood, but in all my trials and errors, I found I had to be normal.  So what is then?  Are we supposed to adapt to everyone else to be similar to others so that we can survive?<\/p>\n<p>I listen to indie music and watch independent movies.  I like going off the beaten path when I visit cities.  But now with everyone doing it, is that normal?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is normal anymore? Is that what we want to eventually strive to be? Is that what happiness is meant to be? A house with a white picket fence and the subdued drama? I saw Little Miss Sunshine today. (Great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=1887\">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-1887","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\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}