{"id":541,"date":"2009-05-17T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2009-05-22T23:42:57","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T22:42:57","slug":"simple-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/simple-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sometimes it&#8217;s the simple things make me happy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taking a walk after it has rained, watching the cat sleep on the sofa, playing snap with the blonde kid or sitting quietly with James listening to some music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BUT then sometimes I think the things that make me happy mean I am simple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Seriously how excited can one person get about a new kettle, but in my defense it is awesome, it makes the water glow blue and looks amazing if you set it to boil in the dark! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Blue Water by Steph Jennings, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/essitam\/3540239134\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2287\/3540239134_eb313f5b34.jpg?resize=500%2C333\" alt=\"Blue Water\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s the simple things make me happy. Taking a walk after it has rained, watching the cat sleep on the sofa, playing snap with the blonde kid or sitting quietly with James listening to some music. BUT then sometimes I think the things that make me happy mean I am simple. Seriously how excited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/simple-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simple things<\/span> <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":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[102,103,1],"tags":[90,87,89,86,88,85],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-photography","category-wbiagw","tag-morphy-richards","tag-boiling","tag-illumination","tag-kettle","tag-light","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6WGy-8J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/20\/if-life-were-simple\/","url_meta":{"origin":541,"position":0},"title":"If life were simple.","date":"June 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"If life were simple I'd have the time to blog every day and I'd be able to update you all with the very mundane comings and goings of this 26 year old, but its not so I don't so now you'll have to make do with a quick update.Life sometimes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;WBIAGW&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1528,"url":"https:\/\/www.weirdbutinagoodway.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/cheats-paella\/","url_meta":{"origin":541,"position":1},"title":"Cheat&#8217;s Paella","date":"March 7, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This isn't really a paella it's more of fish, rice salad but it's roots are definitely in the Spanish dish and it's really really easy. 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