{"id":22257,"date":"2024-10-07T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22257"},"modified":"2024-10-07T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:51:13","slug":"in-search-of-the-something-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/07\/in-search-of-the-something-else\/","title":{"rendered":"In search of The Something Else"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Late last night my wife &amp; I found ourselves in the depths of the Sunday Evening Blues\u2014staring out towards the expanse of yet another week of work &amp; school, without much differentiation from most of those before &amp; after it. I&#8217;m keenly aware of the following fact, of course:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6998.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"994\" height=\"250\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6998.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22258\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6998.jpg 994w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6998-300x75.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/IMG_6998-768x193.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet, oof&#8230; it&#8217;s okay to acknowledge the petty creeping of <em>tomorrow &amp; tomorrow &amp; tomorrow<\/em>. The ennui will pass\u2014as everything always does\u2014but it&#8217;s real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This reminded me of the penguin heroine in what was one of our favorite books to read to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/\">Micronaxx<\/a> back when they were actually micro, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antoinetteportis.com\/a-penguin-story\/\">A Penguin Story<\/a> by Antoinette Portis. Ol&#8217; Edna is always searching for The Something Else\u2014and she finds it! I came across this charming little narration of the story, and just in case you too might need a little avian encouragement\u2014well, enjoy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Penguin Story Read Aloud\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UHxU02RD4UI?start=39&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night my wife &amp; I found ourselves in the depths of the Sunday Evening Blues\u2014staring out towards the expanse of yet another week of work &amp; school, without much differentiation from most of those before &amp; after it. I&#8217;m keenly aware of the following fact, of course: And yet, oof&#8230; it&#8217;s okay to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22260,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22257\/revisions\/22260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}