{"id":2110,"date":"2016-08-19T05:13:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2016-08-19T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T16:32:05","slug":"the-joy-of-creating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Creating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150118.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150118.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2111\" \/><\/a>Seems most of my life I\u2019ve been the recipient of others\u2019 creativity: an inspiring book, a beautiful painting, a piece of music, and things God has made\u2014a cascading waterfall or multicolored sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>Building this house has made me think of the joy of the creator. Did God smile when he saw the first man observe his first sunrise?<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening I looked out over our front yard\u2014now just scraped dirt with ditches left by the sprinkler installers. In a lush meadow, across the way, a doe watched her twin fawns play\u2014a version of tag-you\u2019re-it and ring-around-the-roses.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn\u2019t help but wonder\u2014in a couple of years, will one of those fawns bring her own offspring to romp in our beautiful yard?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still smiling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems most of my life I\u2019ve been the recipient of others\u2019 creativity: an inspiring book, a beautiful painting, a piece of music, and things God has made\u2014a cascading waterfall or multicolored sunrise. Building this house has made me think of the joy of the creator. Did God smile when he saw the first man observe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}