{"id":23595,"date":"2025-02-15T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23595"},"modified":"2025-02-16T17:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:05:54","slug":"how-the-turns-have-tabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=23595","title":{"rendered":"How the Turns Have Tabled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Livia told me that free verse is bad poetry, and I tried to persuade her to the contrary. This was a strange argument for me to have, because just a few years ago I would have agreed with her. Now I find myself arguing in favor of the same style of poetry I once despised. Life surprises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Later, she and I were chatting about something else that had completely changed, and she started to say &#8220;How the tables have turned&#8221; but she caught herself halfway through and said instead, &#8220;How the turns have tabled.&#8221; &#8220;Whew!&#8221; I replied. &#8220;For a minute I thought you were going to say it the wrong way!&#8221; We had a good chuckle over that.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On a more serious note, reversals happen all the time. It&#8217;s important to learn how to live with change and disappointment, and to laugh at them where we can. I recently had to absorb some bad news. An occurrence I&#8217;d long anticipated, and which had finally appeared on the horizon, will unfortunately not be happening any time soon. Something&#8217;s gone wrong, and others will have to sort it out. So I settle in for another long wait, and life goes on. At least I have two great kids and a husband to crack me up every day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23595"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23628,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23595\/revisions\/23628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}