{"id":33,"date":"2009-05-08T16:40:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=33"},"modified":"2009-05-08T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T16:42:47","slug":"if-i-lived-in-floridajuly-24-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"If I lived in Florida&#8230;&#8230;.July 24, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would build bird cages and raise families of them. In the hot Summer I would climb my roof towards puffy clouds and photograph the sunsets. It is hot down there now but it is a good hot. The kind that tears into your creativity and melts your cares away. &#8220;You got the good life down there boy!&#8221; You&#8217;ve surrounded yourself with people that love you&#8230;.birds&#8230;..animals&#8230;.sunsets&#8230;.a nice little spread. Don&#8217;t mind me&#8230;..the heat is getting to me&#8230;..Today when I got into the work after vacation, there was some strange tall dude at my computer&#8230;.turned out he was Eliot Sela&#8230;a famous designer&#8230;.we are working with him on a new job for Mastercard and the new logo that he has designed for them. He was beyond cool&#8230;.he was thrilled with my passion&#8230;.he opened up some of his work for me and took it apart to show me his technique. It was an awesome expereince. This is the new Blog&#8230;.the new life&#8230;.like when you packed the car after high school and drove away from 121 Whitman heading south&#8230;..real south&#8230;.you had some friends with you&#8230;.&#8221;We&#8217;re going to freakin Florida..&#8221; you all said&#8230;..and now Gary is the only one left. He&#8217;s got a touch of grey now and he&#8217;s shaved off his nose catapiller&#8230;.if I lived in Florida&#8230;..I wondered out loud&#8230;.looked up at the clouds&#8230;..where is this Summer going???? where is the time going&#8230;.we are all getting so grown up and&#8230;&#8230;.and&#8230;&#8230;.and OLD&#8230;.. HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY BRENDA!!! you made it girl&#8230;.you had one heck of a year&#8230;.Rebecca needs a diaper change&#8230;.signing off<a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/garybird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/garybird.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"garybird\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would build bird cages and raise families of them. In the hot Summer I would climb my roof towards puffy clouds and photograph the sunsets. It is hot down there now but it is a good hot. The kind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/?p=33\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,17],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-beginning","tag-add-new-tag","tag-gary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themightyten.com\/blog19\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}