{"id":923,"date":"2010-06-30T06:13:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T06:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/?p=923"},"modified":"2010-06-30T06:13:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T06:13:09","slug":"got-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/got-dust\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Dust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4076\/4747829730_5fcf96dfc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magical Mama Nancy shared this poem and I had to pass it on.\u00a0 It speaks to me!\u00a0 Anybody who&#8217;s seen my living room will understand why.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">DUST IF YOU MUST<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">(Author unknown)<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Dust if you must but wouldn&#8217;t it be better<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">To paint a picture or write a letter,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Bake a cake or plant a seed.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Ponder the difference between want and need.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Dust if you must but there&#8217;s not much time,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">With rivers to swim and mountains to climb!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Music to hear and books to read,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Friends to cherish and life to lead.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Dust if you must but the world&#8217;s out there<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">A flutter of snow, a shower of rain.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">This day will not come around again.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Dust if you must but bear in mind,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Old age will come and it&#8217;s not kind.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">And when you go and go you must,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">You, yourself, will make more dust.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">******<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">Remember, a house becomes a home when<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"> you can write &#8220;I love you&#8221; on the furniture&#8230;.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia;\"><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Who&#8217;s up for making some more messes (and then cleaning them up together)?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Happy Wednesday! <\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia;\"><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magical Mama Nancy shared this poem and I had to pass it on.\u00a0 It speaks to me!\u00a0 Anybody who&#8217;s seen my living room will understand why.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09 DUST IF YOU MUST (Author unknown) Dust if you must but wouldn&#8217;t it be better To paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}