{"id":2582,"date":"2019-08-14T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2019-08-14T17:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T00:28:18","slug":"a-rainy-day-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2582","title":{"rendered":"A Rainy Day Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Serendipity. Mirriam-Webster says we experience it when we \u201cfind valuable or agreeable things not sought for.\u201d Other definitions add the words &#8220;unexpected&#8221; and &#8220;unplanned.&#8221; Which happened yesterday. I woke early, planning to begin my bike ride at sunup.<\/p>\n<p>But it was raining\u2014not that slick pavement keeps me home. But in this part of Texas, in August, rain means thunderstorms, and thunder means lightning, and lightning will keep me indoors, especially since the route I take makes me the tallest object around for most of 14 miles.<\/p>\n<p>But this blog isn\u2019t about lightning; it\u2019s about serendipity and it\u2019s about rainy days.<\/p>\n<p>Because most of my serendipities occur on rainy days (i.e. when I&#8217;m interrupted by things I can&#8217;t control). One writer calls it a \u201chappy accident.\u201d I call it a \u201chappy frustration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rain was frustrating. I couldn\u2019t do what I wanted. So I did what I could\u2014I got on the Amazon site and worked on some publishing stuff.<\/p>\n<p>And Voil\u00e1! I discovered the answer to a question I had sought for months. For Months.<\/p>\n<p>Unsought. A serendipity. On a rainy day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity. Mirriam-Webster says we experience it when we \u201cfind valuable or agreeable things not sought for.\u201d Other definitions add the words &#8220;unexpected&#8221; and &#8220;unplanned.&#8221; Which happened yesterday. I woke early, planning to begin my bike ride at sunup. But it was raining\u2014not that slick pavement keeps me home. But in this part of Texas, in [&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-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}