{"id":9928,"date":"2015-05-08T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=9928"},"modified":"2015-05-08T07:59:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T14:59:31","slug":"the-perfect-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9928","title":{"rendered":"The perfect start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Wake up.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Look at the clock.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Yawn, stretch.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Don&#8217;t think about anything but pulling the covers back over my head.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Close eyes.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Open them again.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Hmm.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Maybe.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Peek outside.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">See the sun.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Open the blackout curtains.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Sing a song to myself<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Make coffee.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Go back to bed with coffee.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Wake up gently.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Then it doesn&#8217;t really matter where the day goes after that.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">There are infinite variations to the perfect way to wake up.&nbsp;<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Waking up with the sound of water. Rain on a tin roof. Waves. Water streaming over rocks. Sometimes a book makes its way in. Or music. Maybe a breakfast after. The sound of laughter from an earlier riser.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">The best ones involve waking up with someone else. A lover, a group of friends.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Still.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Any time you start the day with sunshine and coffee in bed, it is perfect.<br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><br style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">&#8216;Morning!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<span id=\"img_container_86AB219D-700A-4D15-912B-EED74AE7A7CB\" class=\"img_container\" data-failed=\"Tap to try again!\"><progress id=\"progress_86AB219D-700A-4D15-912B-EED74AE7A7CB\" value=\"0\" class=\"wp_media_indicator\" contenteditable=\"false\"><\/progress><img decoding=\"async\" data-wpid=\"86AB219D-700A-4D15-912B-EED74AE7A7CB\" src=\"file:\/\/\/var\/mobile\/Containers\/Data\/Application\/416E5F4A-9E09-4E51-8AC1-547ACDF1DCF0\/Documents\/IMG_2773.JPG\" alt=\"\"><\/span>&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake up.Look at the clock.Yawn, stretch.Don&#8217;t think about anything but pulling the covers back over my head.Close eyes.Open them again.Hmm.Maybe.Peek outside.See the sun.Open the blackout curtains.Sing a song to myselfMake coffee.Go back to bed with coffee.Wake up gently.Then it doesn&#8217;t really matter where the day goes after that.There are infinite variations to the perfect way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=9928\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The perfect start<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-2A8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}