{"id":87,"date":"2015-04-22T22:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T05:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T21:45:03","slug":"87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"A piece missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_8890-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8890\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The sun shined and the sky cleared the day I spotted you sitting there. Nestled in that crowed\u00a0dish just waiting for me, I realized you were my wish. I wore you\u00a0proudly happily content until the day you were torn away, broken and bent. I&#8217;ve looked high, I&#8217;ve looked low been searching it seems for ever and then more. You are not to be found so it seems almost making it seem like finding you was all a\u00a0dream. It&#8217;s with a sad\u00a0broken heart\u00a0that\u00a0I realize no one has you any where, not even causally tossed lying around say in a dish again waiting to be found. I&#8217;ll keep searching for the day on my silver chain you again lay!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ha cheesy and corny that&#8217;d be me, but a truer heart for the things (and people)\u00a0I hold dear, hold sentimentally close and don&#8217;t want to part with you will not find. To see me at a quick glance one would not think so I know as I&#8217;ve been told many times before. I don&#8217;t look like one to hold on especially to things\u00a0big, small, significant or\u00a0insignificant.\u00a0Yet I do because I am ridiculously sensitive and for me the memory attached or the feeling is what gets and\u00a0holds me tight.\u00a0It&#8217;s crazy how a memory can be sparked and boom you are transported back to a happy feeling\/memory\/place\/person\/experience, like a personal time machine. I like and collect frogs ( no I do not know why!) not your normal every day child like stuffed cartoon type frog, but expressive pieces or cravings, unique styles like say a magical find, in a small bead store, in Lake Tahoe- where a simple delicate\u00a0tiny glass frog waited for me to come along.\u00a0It was a\u00a0dollar and\u00a0the best purchased I ever made. Wearing it made me smile, made me feel like a princess-though guess at my age more like an old queen ;),\u00a0made me feel like a million dollars and that there was nothing I couldn&#8217;t do. Sounds funny to say out loud well to\u00a0write down, but that&#8217;s how it was. It was my talisman, my shield if you will, against the world.\u00a0That&#8217;s what makes something sentimental, important enough to seek to search out again and again cause the feeling you get, you have, the energy, and state of mind you find yourself in is priceless. Yup that&#8217;s it that&#8217;s the word priceless&#8230;&#8230;.. no matter how big or small, how expensive or cheap, given or purchased when some thing, some place, some sound, some smell, some whatever makes you sentimental and full of\u00a0happiness well that some &#8220;______&#8221; is most definitely priceless! How could a person not want to keep that some thing close or go looking when it is lost or broken? They can&#8217;t cause if they could then it wouldn&#8217;t be sentimental and thus priceless to them. Here&#8217;s to cherishing the things material or otherwise that makes us stop and appreciate, cherish and hold dear, and keep us looking no matter what when lost (and to hopefully finding again one day)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun shined and the sky cleared the day I spotted you sitting there. Nestled in that crowed\u00a0dish just waiting for me, I realized you were my wish. I wore you\u00a0proudly happily content until the day you were torn away, broken and bent. I&#8217;ve looked high, I&#8217;ve looked low been searching it seems for ever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/?p=87\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A piece missing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,52,50,47,54,51,53,48,49,57,56,45],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeling-it","tag-cherished","tag-gift","tag-holding-on","tag-longing","tag-memory","tag-precious","tag-priceless","tag-searching","tag-sentimental","tag-shield","tag-talisman","tag-wishful"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pattingthepuppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}