{"id":25,"date":"2014-09-27T14:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:29:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T14:29:16","slug":"just-betoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/2014\/09\/27\/just-betoday\/","title":{"rendered":"Just BE&hellip;Today!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/IMG_7482.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IMG_7482\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_7482\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/09\/IMG_7482_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is a beautiful fall day in Minnesota; don\u2019t miss it!&nbsp; Whatever you are doing, take time to be in the present moment.&nbsp; See the beauty, be the beauty&nbsp; in each moment or you are going to miss it.&nbsp; Even if you are doing yard work, cleaning the house, or sitting at your children\u2019s sporting events; breath, relax, and find the beauty.&nbsp; Take time to release your stress, anger, and frustration.&nbsp; You have the power to do this; you control your thoughts.&nbsp; These&nbsp; present moments pass us by too quickly.&nbsp; Will it really make a difference if you don\u2019t get the dusting done today?&nbsp; You child is standing beside you begging for a few moments of your time.&nbsp; You won\u2019t regret giving them more time.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot change the past so why are you wasting your time there?&nbsp; The future will arrive, in time; you cannot live there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Wishing, hoping, and regretting are ways to evade the present moment.&nbsp; The \u201cpresent\u201d is a gift.&nbsp; Give it to yourself; share it with your family and your friends.<\/p>\n<p>BREATHE IN THAT WONDERFUL MINNESOTA BEAUTY!!!<\/p>\n<p>Kathi Ackerman, Executive Director Minnesota D.A.R.E., Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today is a beautiful fall day in Minnesota; don\u2019t miss it!&nbsp; Whatever you are doing, take time to be in the present moment.&nbsp; See the beauty, be the beauty&nbsp; in each moment or you are going to miss it.&nbsp; Even if you are doing yard work, cleaning the house, or sitting at your children\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}