{"id":543,"date":"2017-01-06T01:32:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2017-01-06T01:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T01:32:58","slug":"new-years-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_01.jpg\" \n    alt=\"Colorful flowers\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_01.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_01-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_01-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_01-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took these photos at a flower shop in Zurich last fall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_02.jpg\" \n    alt=\"Flower shop in Zurich\" class=\"alignright wp-image-547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_02.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_02-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-01-05_02-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love flower shops, because they\u2019re changing works of art. Each morning, the florist looks at colors, shapes, and composition, and arranges what she has.<\/p>\n<p>I want my life to be like that. I want to take what I have, and make of it something beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is the first week of the new year. And I understand that this is the time when all the \u201cshoulds\u201d in your life come raining down upon your head.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not going to add to them. Instead, here are my new year\u2019s wishes for you:<\/p>\n<p>That you truly appreciate yourself\u2014your friends and family do.<\/p>\n<p>That you slow down to catch glimpses of beauty in your world.<\/p>\n<p>That you, little by little, day by day, create of your life, whatever you want it to be.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings and love to you; your life is full of possibility!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took these photos at a flower shop in Zurich last fall. I love flower shops, because they\u2019re changing works of art. Each morning, the florist looks at colors, shapes, and composition, and arranges what she has. I want my life to be like that. I want to take what I have, and make of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}