{"id":5,"date":"2008-08-04T05:15:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T05:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-08-04T23:17:37","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:17:37","slug":"the-first-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-first-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meaningful Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t express how important are one\u2019s first thoughts of the day. We wake up and have immediate choices \u2013 to feel grateful for our lives and challenges, or to be mad or sad or resentful or any number of negative emotions. Start the day with love and gratitude and the smile on your face will change your whole demeanor.<\/p>\n<p>I have led a blessed life, full of adventure, love, passion, pain, challenges, loyal friends, an incredible family, opportunity, variety, learning, disappointments, achievements, successes, failures, pets, great old cars, and so much more! My joy now is to share my quirky experiences of life and love in these pages. I\u2019ll be giving away great information and advice about how to life happily, healthfully, and fulfilled. To live without regrets, to live to help others, to live to be of service, to have an abundant, prosperous, and spiritually awakened existence. My thoughts, interests and talents are many. May you find some comfort in this site that emphasizes Gratitude, Love, Compassion, Abundance and Service to others (which enriches the self).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy your journey \u2013 with all the highs and the lows. I have, and still do!<\/p>\n<p>Namast\u00e9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t express how important are one\u2019s first thoughts of the day. We wake up and have immediate choices \u2013 to feel grateful for our lives and challenges, or to be mad or sad or resentful or any number of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/the-first-thoughts\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude-attitude","tag-daily-om"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gratitude-gifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}