{"id":64228,"date":"2020-06-27T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64228"},"modified":"2020-06-27T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:00:22","slug":"poem-2-recipe-for-a-fulfilling-life-learning-to-smile-and-giggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/poem-2-recipe-for-a-fulfilling-life-learning-to-smile-and-giggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem #2: Recipe for a Fulfilling Life: Learning to smile and giggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients:<br \/>\n~ smiles and giggles<br \/>\n~ golf clubs<br \/>\n~ glorious sunset or inspirational sunrise<br \/>\n~ designer handbag<br \/>\n~ kind remark to a stranger<\/p>\n<p>Laugh until you cry. With or without your best friend.<br \/>\nFind a dash of humor in any situation.<br \/>\nAdd lots of smiles and laughter.<br \/>\nRemember, they\u2019re both free. Doesn\u2019t that make us all wealthy?<\/p>\n<p>Dice up the life of leisure: golf clubs and stunning destination courses as a substitute for real love.<br \/>\nFold in the perfect place to watch a glorious sunset or inspirational sunrise.<br \/>\nThe secret ingredient? Whom I shared my time with and what we shared together.<br \/>\nIt didn\u2019t have to be man-made artifice. Or extravagant.<br \/>\nIt could be simple elegance: laughter and giggles. Giggles and laughter. Add to taste.<br \/>\nRemember, you can\u2019t over-season using laughter and giggles.<br \/>\nAdd copious amounts of giggles and laughter. Share.<\/p>\n<p>Fold in smiles and more smiles. 7 miles of smiles in Negril.<br \/>\nStir in the joy of Cartagena. And around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Chop up fear and designer handbags and shoes and pick up a helping of trust. Blend in kind remarks to strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Time to revisit that old family recipe, \u201cA beautiful journey.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: ~ smiles and giggles ~ golf clubs ~ glorious sunset or inspirational sunrise ~ designer handbag ~ kind remark to a stranger Laugh until you cry. With or without your best friend. Find a dash of humor in any situation. Add lots of smiles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3563],"class_list":["post-64228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-thepoetrymarathon2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64256,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64228\/revisions\/64256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}