{"id":2427,"date":"2009-05-27T01:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T06:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2009-05-27T01:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T06:12:36","slug":"day-144-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/memphis\/day-144-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 144: Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3567730258\/\" title=\"Day 144: Rising by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3615\/3567730258_6a4cc04cf6_b.jpg\" width=\"600\"  alt=\"Day 144: Rising\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I met a stranger in the park and made a friend. <\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think that happened in real life, but, well, there you go. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes songs find me when I need them, and sometimes perfect strangers do too. Apparently. <\/p>\n<p>He told me that no matter what life throws your way, you&#8217;ve got to be &#8220;disgustingly optimistic.&#8221; He said it with a smile. <\/p>\n<p>We talked there on the bench by the river for probably an hour, until the marbled blue above us gave way to moody grey and the rain came for our cameras. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if he&#8217;ll ever really know how much he helped me that day.  <\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/sets\/72157611984534859\/\">Project 365<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a stranger in the park and made a friend. I didn&#8217;t think that happened in real life, but, well, there you go. Sometimes songs find me when I need them, and sometimes perfect strangers do too. Apparently. He told me that no matter what life throws your way, you&#8217;ve got to be &#8220;disgustingly optimistic.&#8221; He said it with a smile. We talked there on the bench by the river for probably an hour,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,31,683],"tags":[2163,1027,2153,675,2149],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memphis","category-musings","category-project-365-2009","tag-friends","tag-life","tag-memphis","tag-musing","tag-project-365"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-D9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}