{"id":3520,"date":"2016-04-20T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2016-04-20T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T14:43:00","slug":"q-for-que-sera-sera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3520","title":{"rendered":"Q for Que Sera Sera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Que Sera, Sera,<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Whatever will be, will be<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The future&#8217;s not ours, to see<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Que Sera, Sera<\/em><br \/>\n<em>What will be, will be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>~ Doris Day<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I heard this song a lot, probably five or six times a week in my dad&#8217;s car, as a child. At that time, I didn&#8217;t give thought to the lyrics nor knew what they were about. It was just a fun song to sing along to whenever it came on the cassette player (yes, I grew up in the cassette tape era). Now, 30 years later, I think <em>que sera sera<\/em> is definitely a good philosophy in life to live by. As I grow older, I have come to realise that we can&#8217;t control everything in life. Sometimes shit happens for some reason or another. And perhaps it wasn&#8217;t even of your own doing! Now that&#8217;s when it gets frustrating. But what to do? Que sera sera. As one would say in Singlish, &#8220;Like that lor.&#8221; Just have to move on, ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Que Sera, Sera, Whatever will be, will be The future&#8217;s not ours, to see Que Sera, Sera What will be, will be. ~ Doris Day &nbsp; &nbsp; I heard this song a lot, probably five or six times a week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=3520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520","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=3520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3520\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}