{"id":1146,"date":"2008-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2008-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"ive_been_watching_the_american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"What Life Gives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the American sitcom <b>How I Met Your Mother<\/b> which I absolutely love and in the last episode of the second season, the character Ted narrates a voice-over, saying this about life:<br \/>\n<i>&#8220;For the most part, when you know what you want out of life, life often gives it to you.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to believe it, but as the years go by, I find it harder and harder to believe. Maybe I&#8217;m just a cynic. Or it could be that I&#8217;m too idealistic. Maybe I&#8217;m not looking in the right places. Maybe I&#8217;m not looking hard enough. Maybe I&#8217;m somehow not doing the right things. Maybe I&#8217;m not meeting the right people.<br \/>\nMaybe dreams are meant to remain as dreams. Maybe it&#8217;s just not meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the American sitcom How I Met Your Mother which I absolutely love and in the last episode of the second season, the character Ted narrates a voice-over, saying this about life: &#8220;For the most part, when you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=1146\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-mullings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}