{"id":30251,"date":"2024-07-02T16:02:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=30251"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T20:31:28","slug":"the-view-from-here-checking-in-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/07\/the-view-from-here-checking-in-5\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From Here &#8211; You Have To See This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Tuesday!\u00a0 Feels a lot like a Monday but that&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 The weekend is already close.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you had a wonderful long weekend.\u00a0 There is something about having one extra day to do things that makes all the difference.\u00a0 I had a few extra days off which made it extra special.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason yesterday was all about getting things cleaned up and organized.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t be the only one that loves that.<\/p>\n<p>It feels good to start a new month with everything cleaned up.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to share something I found online today that resonated with me.\u00a0 I have a love of dragonflies.\u00a0 Legend is they are a sign from heaven.\u00a0 I have three dragonflies tattooed on my arm in remembrance of my family.\u00a0 Every August, right around my brothers birthday, I have a dragonfly that pays me a visit and lingers.\u00a0 I like to think it&#8217;s my brother, giving me a hard time like he used to when we were kids.<\/p>\n<p>Every so often I have a dragonfly come close to me and just linger.\u00a0 It will circle around and around.\u00a0 I like to think it&#8217;s someone saying hello from heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Well, look at this story.\u00a0 A bride released butterflies on her wedding day in honour of her late father.\u00a0 Imagine everyone&#8217;s surprise when they stayed.\u00a0 Actually clung to her and her dress and other wedding party members.<\/p>\n<p>The story made me smile and I wanted to share that with you.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C8SsbJPSZUT\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happy Tuesday!\u00a0 Feels a lot like a Monday but that&#8217;s okay.\u00a0 The weekend is already close. I hope you had a wonderful long weekend.\u00a0 There is something about having one extra day to do things that makes all the difference.\u00a0 I had a few extra days off which made it extra special. For some reason","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":28455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 16:49:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/07\/the-view-from-here-checking-in-5\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30251"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30263,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions\/30263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}