{"id":5309,"date":"2015-08-24T23:17:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T03:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:48:38","slug":"day-49-ive-seen-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=5309","title":{"rendered":"Day 49: I’ve seen better"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day started out well enough \u2013 extra time in the morning\u00a0with Tom is the best way I can think of to ease into a new week.<\/p>\n

Nothing\u00a0particularly bad happened during the day. Mostly routine, but not boring.<\/p>\n

But somehow, at 2:30, I felt like I couldn’t really do anything else today.<\/p>\n

I did, of course. I attended to the necessary work and domestic chores, I ate a healthy dinner. I watched a movie.<\/p>\n

Yet\u00a0the weight hung on me, all the way through “Dirty Dancing.”\u00a0You’d think that watching Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze do The Lift would have cured me of anything.<\/p>\n

It helped, but still.<\/p>\n

I could only speculate aloud (on Facebook), “Maybe tomorrow will be better.”<\/p>\n

My friends rushed to reply.<\/p>\n

A friend in Pakistan sent me\u00a0the clip of Doris Day singing “Que Sera, Sera.”<\/a>\u00a0 A North Georgia pal posted a gorgeous sunset photo.<\/p>\n

A very wise cousin said, “Have a day, whatever kind you allow yourself, have a day.” A local artist said, “Grab your sketch pad first thing!”<\/p>\n

And a former editor – one who made me laugh every day when I was a young reporter, oh so very long ago – wrote, “Hope so, kiddo. I find every day bright. I wish that for you.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I got The Lift. Way, way above even Patrick Swayze.<\/p>\n

This penny is 1987, for the year “Dirty Dancing” came out.<\/p>\n

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The day started out well enough \u2013 extra time in the morning\u00a0with Tom is the best way I can think of to ease into a new week. Nothing\u00a0particularly bad happened during the day. Mostly routine, but not boring. But somehow, at 2:30, I felt like I couldn’t really do anything else today. I did, of … read more Day 49: I’ve seen better<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[90,166,92,167],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-90","tag-dance","tag-friends","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5315,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}