{"id":368,"date":"2014-07-07T03:40:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T10:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2014-11-04T21:00:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T05:00:31","slug":"motivational-monday-nurture-your-inner-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/motivational-mondays\/motivational-monday-nurture-your-inner-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivational Monday: Nurture Your Inner Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nurture-your-inner-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" src=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nurture-your-inner-child-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"nurture your inner child\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nurture-your-inner-child-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/nurture-your-inner-child.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The world seems to move faster every day. And the news&#8211;dismal at best. When life seems to get me down, I know it&#8217;s time to let my inner child out and pay attention to what she wants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Laughing, playing, living in the moment&#8211;this is what kids do well. No dream is too big, no imaginary scenario too weird. Giving my inner child the freedom she doesn&#8217;t get nearly enough of makes her joyous and in turn refreshes and invigorates me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Next time you feel overwhelmed, step away from your problems and let out your child. Roll up your pant legs and wade through the water. Buy a bottle of bubbles and blow bubbles everywhere. Laugh uproariously at something silly. Forget about the past and the future and stay right where you are, in the moment by moment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Try it&#8211;just for a little while. You won&#8217;t be sorry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Until Wednesday and wishing your inner child a big ol&#8217; belly laugh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Ann<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world seems to move faster every day. And the news&#8211;dismal at best. When life seems to get me down, I know it&#8217;s time to let my inner child out and pay attention to what she wants. Laughing, playing, living in the moment&#8211;this is what kids do well. No dream is too big, no imaginary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[222,225,226,224,223],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivational-mondays","tag-inner-child","tag-laugh","tag-moment-by-moment","tag-motivation","tag-nurture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annroth.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}