{"id":1385,"date":"2010-01-23T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/rainy-day-2\/"},"modified":"2010-01-23T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T22:22:00","slug":"rainy-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"rainy day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I usually don&#8217;t write a whole lot about what I feel, like, personally, on my blog. However, I will make an exception today.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S1t1vqFIDwI\/AAAAAAAAAkA\/h9-muZ4spyc\/s1600-h\/friends\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"212\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_QUKI7v2vaF0\/S1t1vqFIDwI\/AAAAAAAAAkA\/h9-muZ4spyc\/s320\/friends\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/weheartit.com\/entry\/1349436\">ah, friendship<\/a><\/div>\n<div>I moved to Arkansas about a year and a half ago. And, as luck would have it, Arkansas turned out to be exactly what I expected it to be. The &#8220;artist&#8221; community consisted of those who can make fun Razorback Gear for the loyal University of Arkansas sports fans. Sure, there are others out there who are creative and, I am sure, have a lot more to offer than the stereotype I just described. But, I have not encountered those people since arriving in good old Arkansas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But, what is my point?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I realize now how important it is to surround yourself with people who are similar to you&#8230; those who are creative, those who inspire you to do more and be more. People who can push you and laugh with you. People who don&#8217;t look at you like you are crazy when you want to paint your walls black, or cover an arm chair with bright blue velvet. People who get your quirks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I took those people for granted when I lived in Springfield, Mo. There is a certain sense of comradery felt among those whose goals in life include finding ways to make the world a bit prettier (and perhaps a bit more offbeat). I miss drinking massive amounts of coffee while rambling about the latest trends in design. I miss talking about growth and fears and religion and dreams for the future while sipping homemade lemonade on a porch swing on Elm Street.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s funny, the smaller, seemingly less important things that I have experienced in my life are what have now shaped me into the person I am today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>However, I am so grateful for those friendships that I made. I feel a certain amount of joy in knowing that no matter where I go, I am still connected to people creatively.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>People move on. I got married, had a lovely daughter. Relocated. It is raining today, so I am feeling a bit melancholy. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>Arkansas, you had better be worth it. Show me what you are made of.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually don&#8217;t write a whole lot about what I feel, like, personally, on my blog. However, I will make an exception today. ah, friendship I moved to Arkansas about a year and a half ago. And, as luck would have it, Arkansas turned out to be exactly what I expected it to be. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}