{"id":4055,"date":"2011-10-20T06:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2011-10-20T06:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T13:58:04","slug":"whimstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4055","title":{"rendered":"Come along with me\/whimstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDo you ever just lay back, stare at the clouds &#8230; and take a moment out of the day? I did, and I wondered where this cloud wandered whilst it was whispering its whimsical story &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4069\" title=\"gleaming_word-whimstanding-8004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Are these clouds cumulus, stratus, cirrus, or<br \/>\nnimbus? Oh I should just shush and enjoy. But WAIT,\u00a0my cloud is smiling at me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4055\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8006\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4070\" title=\"gleaming_word-whimstanding-8006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Wow. A cloud dragon. With claws AND wings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4055\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4071\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4071\" title=\"gleaming_word-whimstanding-8007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0It&#8217;s Puff! Puff IS a cloud.\u00a0And it was because of my post from yesterday written by my niece&#8217;s husband, Ron: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/3908\">Finding Peace at MaryJanesFarm<\/a>. That&#8217;s why he had that song in his head. There&#8217;s magic afoot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Meditation, calm collection. Time slows to just a heartbeat and then PUFF. Magic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4055\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4072\" title=\"gleaming_word-whimstanding-8008\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230; and just like that *poof* my whimsical cloud flees. How outstanding was that? How whimsical was that? Um, that was like totally <strong>whimstanding<\/strong>! Bye puff, you were pretty magical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4055\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8009\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4073\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4073\" title=\"gleaming_word-whimstanding-8009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/gleaming_word-whimstanding-8009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whimstanding<\/strong> (adjective) A combination of the words whimsical and outstanding, meaning both remarkable and light, fanciful.<\/p>\n<p>Come on Merriam-Webster, all the\u00a0people who &#8220;believe in magic&#8221; are saying it, WHIMSTANDING.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have another\u00a0song in my head, &#8220;Do you believe in magic, in a young girl&#8217;s heart? How the music can free her, whenever it starts. It&#8217;s magic, it&#8217;ll free your soul &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you believe in magic, come along with me &#8230;&#8221;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever just lay back, stare at the clouds &#8230; and take a moment out of the day? I did, and I wondered where this cloud wandered whilst it was whispering its whimsical story &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4055\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[370,449,966],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-inspiration","tag-whimstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}