{"id":427,"date":"2009-10-04T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=427"},"modified":"2009-10-04T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T09:43:37","slug":"427","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgmartjournal.blogspot.com\/2006_09_01_archive.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lemsworld.com\/blog\/wp-content\/Images\/melancholy.jpg\" align=right width=140 height=200 hspace=10><\/a>Melancholy: Despite having a negative connotation, melancholy can be viewed as a gift. Instead of being viewed as a trait of the depressed and unfortunate, melancholy can also be seen as a trait of philosophers, prophets, artists, poets, and heroes. Melancholy is a window into ourselves. It allows us to think, ponder, reflect, imagine. If you are able to embrace this phase rather than being swallowed by it, find peace in the momentary pause and look for the gifts left to you by introspection and sensitivity. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bgmartjournal.blogspot.com\/2006_09_01_archive.html\"><em>Bridgette Guerzon Mills<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melancholy: Despite having a negative connotation, melancholy can be viewed as a gift. Instead of being viewed as a trait of the depressed and unfortunate, melancholy can also be seen as a trait of philosophers, prophets, artists, poets, and heroes. Melancholy is a window into ourselves. It allows us to think, ponder, reflect, imagine. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lemsworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}