{"id":208,"date":"2023-05-15T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/?p=208&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=208"},"modified":"2023-05-07T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T14:56:52","slug":"how-i-found-a-pot-of-gold-chapter-2-not-normal-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/15\/how-i-found-a-pot-of-gold-chapter-2-not-normal-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Found a Pot of Gold: Chapter 2: Not Normal Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:15pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Comic Sans MS\">When I woke up the next morning, I was like, yo? Anyone there? Not normal stuff for me. <em>Nobody was home. Nobody was answering my calls. I didn&#8217;t know if they were coming back.<\/em><strong> Don&#8217;t be silly.<\/strong><em> But still! <\/em><strong>They&#8217;re coming back soon! <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><em>Weren&#8217;t they? <\/em><\/span><\/strong>I was home alone the entire day. I ate ice cream and all the snacks. I went to Sally&#8217;s house, but nobody was there. I knocked on everyone&#8217;s door. <em>Nobody was home.<\/em> Nobody. It was creepy. Eerie. Spooky. <em>Wrong.<\/em> Everyone was always home. Not like this. I started to panic. I called everyone I knew. They didn&#8217;t answer. But something inside me told me that they were searching for the end of the rainbow. Then I thought, <em>our family could use more money\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Source Code Pro\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#666666;font-family:Source Code Pro;font-size:15pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"color:#bf9000;text-decoration:underline\"><strong><em>Time to believe in myself. Make my family happy.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I woke up the next morning, I was like, yo? Anyone there? Not normal stuff for me. Nobody was home. Nobody was answering my calls. I didn&#8217;t know if they were coming back. Don&#8217;t be silly. But still! They&#8217;re coming back soon! Weren&#8217;t they? I was home alone the entire day. I ate ice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,55],"tags":[36,18,87,11],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-writing-samples","tag-carolyn","tag-fiction","tag-pot-of-gold","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.theworldrevolvesaroundmichael.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}