{"id":46,"date":"2007-06-02T18:36:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T22:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-04-21T18:16:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T22:16:20","slug":"a-history-of-violets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"A History of Violets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The violet is my favorite flower. Because of my &#8220;no hit-and-run&#8221; policy, I can&#8217;t just drop this random fact on you and retreat. I have to tell you more. For 2007, the violet&#8217;s time is already over and most of the things I could say about violets would therefore not seem so fitting. It&#8217;s OK. I have something to tell you that relates to the color rather than the flower.<\/p>\n<p>I once wrote a story for a children&#8217;s magazine. Violet was the name of one of the characters and her favorite color was purple. I never submitted the story for publication. It&#8217;s sad that I finished it but did not have the courage to share it.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to run away now please.<\/p>\n<p>But I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Some mistakes in life you never get the chance to fix. Others, the option is always there if you&#8217;re willing to take it. I can&#8217;t submit the story as a contest entry, which was its original purpose, but I can still submit it for regular publication. In other words, it&#8217;s a mistake that I can fix.<\/p>\n<p>My promise: I will submit the story to a magazine by the end of the summer; if it is rejected, I will publish it here.<\/p>\n<p>TAHA (The Ambulance Has Arrived&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The violet is my favorite flower. Because of my &#8220;no hit-and-run&#8221; policy, I can&#8217;t just drop this random fact on you and retreat. I have to tell you more. For 2007, the violet&#8217;s time is already over and most of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=46\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,5],"tags":[107,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}