{"id":621,"date":"2009-04-08T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/almost-wordless-wednesday-a-very-special-blossom\/"},"modified":"2009-04-08T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T15:08:25","slug":"almost-wordless-wednesday-a-very-special-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/2009\/almost-wordless-wednesday-a-very-special-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"(Almost)Wordless Weds.: A very special blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes, even when (especially when?) I’m exhausted, work-overloaded, multi-tasking, dreaming in a million different directions, I am just struck by the sheer beauty around me.<\/p>\n

Washington in the springtime (and the fall, and DEFINITELY Xmas, and heck even summer… sometimes… in the evenings) is just mesmerizing beautiful, in a way that cannot fail to fill one’s heart with joy, however fleeting.<\/p>\n

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[Photo by KGM on Flickr<\/a>]<\/p>\n

In fact, it’s my favorite type of awe – the one that is found among the ordinary. A journalism professor teaching a class to a group of high school journalists in “summer camp” (yah, I was that kid) told a group of us part of the role of the journalist is to “make the ordinary extraordinary.” Life can do that sometimes.<\/p>\n

Question\/Thought\/ Prompt:<\/strong> What are the moments \/ sights\/ experiences that turn ordinary into extraordinary for you? That cheer you from gloom, inspire or afflict you?\u00a0 Post a comment and\/or write \/show me on your blog (just be sure to come back and tell me about it.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sometimes, even when (especially when?) I’m exhausted, work-overloaded, multi-tasking, dreaming in a million different directions, I am just struck by the sheer beauty around me. Washington in the springtime (and the fall, and DEFINITELY Xmas, and heck even summer… sometimes… in the evenings) is just mesmerizing beautiful, in a way that cannot fail to fill […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,622],"tags":[1170,93,1165,1167,1162,1163,1168,1166,337,1169,1164,43],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wash","category-words","tag-awe","tag-beauty","tag-bloom","tag-cheer","tag-cherry-blossom","tag-cherry-blossoms","tag-extraordinary","tag-inspiration","tag-life","tag-making-ordinary-extraordinary","tag-springtime","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washwords.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}