{"id":2083,"date":"2020-11-24T16:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T00:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2021-04-12T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:55:28","slug":"what-are-you-grateful-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/what-are-you-grateful-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are YOU Grateful For?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you remember, back at the beginning of this year when the pandemic just started, we all said &#8220;when this thing is over, then&#8230;&#8221; and then some statement would follow that would describe a &#8220;back to normal&#8221; life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s November now, and\u00a0clearly, life is still not &#8220;back to normal&#8221;, and may very well not get there for at least a while.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2084\" title=\"if 2020 was a bag of chips: Lay's Orange Juice &amp; Toothpaste flavor\" src=\"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/toothpaste-juice-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"if 2020 was a bag of chips: Lay's Orange Juice &amp; Toothpaste flavor\" width=\"442\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>While unpalatable in many ways, 2020 has made me realize how much I value\u00a0<\/strong><strong>the normal, day-to-day, regular parts of life:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Going to the grocery store and not having to stand in line outside.<\/li>\n<li>Said store having full shelves with all the products I want (toilet paper).<\/li>\n<li>Being able to gather with friends and hug each other.<\/li>\n<li>Kids spending their days in school instead of in their room.<\/li>\n<li>Attending social events.<\/li>\n<li>Going to the gym.<\/li>\n<li>Hiking without a facemask.<\/li>\n<li>Breathing fresh air&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Now that the &#8220;new normal&#8221; has been adjusted to a whole different level, it&#8217;s the random and regular things that get most of my gratitude.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How about you? What things are YOU grateful for? I&#8217;d love to hear from you. In the meantime: Happy Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n<p>Lieve<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2085\" title=\"One turkey to the other: Dude! I have a ton of followers and they all want to have me over for dinner!\" src=\"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thankscomic-2.jpg\" alt=\"One turkey to the other: Dude! I have a ton of followers and they all want to have me over for dinner!\" width=\"512\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thankscomic-2.jpg 512w, https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/thankscomic-2-480x379.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 512px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to:<\/p>\n<p>Bored Panda, for the &#8220;Orange Juice &amp; Toothpaste&#8221; meme<\/p>\n<p>Simon Maage from Unsplash for the &#8220;Give Thanks&#8221; image<\/p>\n<p>The artist who created the &#8220;Turkey Invited For Dinner&#8221; cartoon. I am sorry I can&#8217;t find your name, &#8220;N&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember, back at the beginning of this year when the pandemic just started, we all said &#8220;when this thing is over, then&#8230;&#8221; and then some statement would follow that would describe a &#8220;back to normal&#8221; life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brightlightgraphics.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}