{"id":1847,"date":"2014-05-06T06:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2014-04-29T14:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T18:31:17","slug":"loving-that-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2014\/05\/06\/loving-that-solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving that solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that lately I get reminders almost every other day of how long this past winter has been. Now that the weather has changed, the great outdoors keeps calling me, begging me for attention. I really do feel guilty if I don\u2019t answer it and \u201cwaste\u201d my time indoors working on the computer or doing chores.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there are also lots of chores to do outdoors; some are more satisfying than others. There\u2019s one particular chore that I didn\u2019t realize how much I missed during the winter until recently ~ hanging laundry. Sure, it takes effort and foresight (I need to watch the weather forecast), but the rewards are tenfold. I actually get giddy when I think about it ~ I am actually harnessing the sun&#8217;s energy to dry my clothes rather than utilizing fossil fuels by using the\u00a0dryer. The 5 or 10 minutes I am outside hanging our laundry in the early morning are very Zen moments for me. I am being embraced by the sun\u2019s rays while listening to all the lovely music of the birds starting their day. \u00a0It is the perfect beginning to a beautiful day. \u00a0When I am out there, it becomes so apparent how much I have missed this activity and how much fuller my life is when I am doing it.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/laundry-2014.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/laundry-2014.jpg?resize=584%2C347\" alt=\"laundry 2014\" width=\"584\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/laundry-2014.jpg?w=856&amp;ssl=1 856w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/laundry-2014.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/laundry-2014.jpg?resize=500%2C297&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May your mornings start off with sun and songs of life around you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that lately I get reminders almost every other day of how long this past winter has been. Now that the weather has changed, the great outdoors keeps calling me, begging me for attention. I really do feel guilty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/2014\/05\/06\/loving-that-solar-energy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99],"tags":[839,837,838],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-hanging-laundry","tag-solar-energy","tag-zen-moments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knowyouroots.com\/ijustgottashare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}