{"id":2881,"date":"2004-10-15T01:43:34","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T15:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/15\/green-glass-turtles\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T19:33:25","slug":"green-glass-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/15\/green-glass-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Glass Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;ve met <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sauria.com\/blog\" title=\"Ted Leung on the air\">Ted<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julieleung.com\/\" title=\"Seedlings and Sprouts\">Julie Leung<\/a> and their daughters a couple times at local weblogger gatherings, for one reason or another, their sites never found their way into my newsreader &#8212; I&#8217;m not quite sure why, but that was the case. A couple coincidences this morning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulbeard.org\/wordpress\/index.php?p=2256\" title=\"A Crank's Progress: shock horror: MSFT products less than excellent, agrees MSFT blogger\">Paul Beard<\/a> linking to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.julieleung.com\/archives\/001397.html\" title=\"A few notes on products and services\">post of Julie&#8217;s<\/a>, then adding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/randomseattle\/\" title=\"randomseattle\">randomseattle<\/a> to my Flickr contacts, which then led me to both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/twleung\/\" title=\"Sprout\">Ted<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/61372797@N00\/\" title=\"Julie Leung\">Julie<\/a> on Flickr) prompted me to finally fix that oversight.<\/p>\n<p>While I was catching up on Julie&#8217;s posts, I found out that she&#8217;s set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenglassturtles.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Green Glass Turtles\">photoblog for her daughters,<\/a> and it became a sweet way to start my day, looking at the world through their eyes for a few minutes. As I&#8217;m still getting used to this whole getting up at 6am routine, I don&#8217;t often start my mornings off with a smile, but <a href=\"http:\/\/greenglassturtles.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/abigail-i-like-chipmunks.html\" title=\"I like chipmunks\">chipmunks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenglassturtles.blogspot.com\/2004\/09\/this-is-tattoo.html\" title=\"This is a tattoo\">unicorns<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/greenglassturtles.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/this-is-painting-of-lunchtime-for.html\" title=\"Lunchtime for a purple snake\">purple snakes<\/a> sure did it for me today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DCure, The%2526albumTerm=Mixed Up%2526songTerm=Forest, A (Tree)%26partnerId%3D30\">Forest, A (Tree)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DCure, The%26partnerId%3D30\">Cure, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DCure, The%2526albumTerm=Mixed Up%26partnerId%3D30\">Mixed Up<\/a><\/em> (1990, 6:56).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was catching up on Julie&#8217;s posts, I found out that she&#8217;s set up a photoblog for her daughters, and it became a sweet way to start my day, looking at the world through their eyes for a few minutes. As I&#8217;m still getting used to this whole getting up at 6am routine, I don&#8217;t often start my mornings off with a smile, but chipmunks, unicorns, and purple snakes sure did it for me today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}