{"id":522,"date":"2012-11-25T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T04:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=522"},"modified":"2012-11-25T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T04:33:54","slug":"40-days-of-fun-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"40 Days of Fun: #40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;at house church this evening a friend was mentioning someone she knows who is celebrating &#8220;50 days of fun&#8221; leading up to her 50th birthday.\u00a0 And I realized that today is 40 days until my 40th birthday.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m going to try my own &#8220;40 Days of Fun&#8221;, which will be a stretch for me because I&#8217;m don&#8217;t automatically think of all the &#8220;fun&#8221; things I can do &#8211; I&#8217;m more likely to think of all the things that need to get done instead (and not to waste too much time doing things that are &#8220;fun&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>#40: &#8220;Sunday Morning Soak&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a fairly regular ritual for me&#8230;and its fun.\u00a0 Because our &#8216;church&#8217; happens on Sunday evenings, I take Sunday mornings to have a nice hot bath and read.\u00a0 Sometimes it&#8217;s with candles and relaxing music.\u00a0 Not this morning, but I did have a nice hot soak and read a couple of chapters of <a title=\"A Girl Named Grace\" href=\"http:\/\/jannalafrance.blogspot.ca\/p\/novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Girl Named Grace&#8221;<\/a> which is a pretty good book so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;at house church this evening a friend was mentioning someone she knows who is celebrating &#8220;50 days of fun&#8221; leading up to her 50th birthday.\u00a0 [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/?p=522\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songofjoy.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}