{"id":215,"date":"2007-10-20T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=215"},"modified":"2011-01-09T17:24:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-09T22:24:32","slug":"niceness-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/niceness-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Niceness Alert!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while, something great happens that I didn&#8217;t expect or even know I wanted, and I am so happy that, upon reflection, I realize it was secretly my one and only desire all along and that I will never want anything again.  Unfortunately, the &#8220;never want anything again&#8221; part only lasts a minute because I am a little pig. Fortunately, the happiness lasts longer.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the great thing was Leah&#8217;s post about my blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/sahmstyle.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/another-great-blog.html\">Style for the Stay at Home Mom<\/a>. (UPDATED JANUARY 2011 TO NOTE HER BLOG IS NOW, SADLY, DEFUNCT.) Thank you for the nicest compliments ever, Leah! I got all choked up, for real, y&#8217;all.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, April 24, 1994, the great thing was seeing this silly picture of me in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Rxrm8BfzZiI\/AAAAAAAABDU\/4LQbqg3E6WE\/s1600-h\/nytimes.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123661444955727394\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/Rxrm8BfzZiI\/AAAAAAAABDU\/4LQbqg3E6WE\/s320\/nytimes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am the one in the leopard jacket and yes, I AM wearing a skirt. Thanks for asking. Here&#8217;s a picture of me in the same jacket in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123663493655127602\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/RxrozRfzZjI\/AAAAAAAABDc\/IPYUUuHshqE\/s320\/Sept2_Montauk.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once in a while, something great happens that I didn&#8217;t expect or even know I wanted, and I am so happy that, upon reflection, I realize it was secretly my one and only desire all along and that I will never want anything again. Unfortunately, the &#8220;never want anything again&#8221; part only lasts a minute&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/niceness-alert\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,507,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","7":"category-leopard-print","8":"category-pictures-of-me","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9093,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/9093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}