{"id":13881,"date":"2015-08-28T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13881"},"modified":"2015-08-30T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T20:53:08","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13881","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A few months ago, I went to the\u00a0Folk Life<\/a>\u00a0festival for the first time. It’s a music and street food bonanza and a friend was performing so K and I braved the heavy traffic and navigated our way toward the Exhibition hall. A swish and a loud collective gasp from a crowd stopped us in our tracks, and there, standing in the middle, was a juggler.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m no juggling expert, but this guy was something special. First of all, he was dressed like\u00a0Hansel from Grimm’s Fairy Tale (or at least how I imagine Hansel would dress) and he was lobbing massive bowling pins into the air. This youthful man clad in old-timey\u00a0garb kept a running monologue going throughout his performance, which included adding other objects into the airborne pins — the highlight addition\u00a0was a child.<\/p>\n

K and I stood mesmerized and when he passed around a receptacle for donations, I readily tossed in five bucks. It was worth it. I was also struck by how he emphasized how he’s been practicing for 20 years<\/em>, starting with little bean bags and working his way up to bigger items. “This is how I make my living folks,” he announced proudly. I was impressed. My husband would probably say it’s B.S. but I believe the juggler — he’s that good.<\/p>\n

If he can make a living throwing and catching objects, I can do the same with my various skills<\/em>, I reasoned. I’m a bit of a juggler myself, what with all this sewing, writing, illustrating and book-making. Remembering the Folk Life incident bolstered me, and I have finally finally<\/em> worked up the chutzpah to put my little Furoku<\/em>\u00a0sidebar button and an explanatory page (it’s somewhat long-winded — I’m working on editing it). It’s a gamble, folks. But I’m willing to keep practicing and evolving.<\/p>\n

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The giveaway<\/a> responses are so fun! I especially love the party stories and so far the unbelted look for the dress is winning out.<\/p>\n

Your Furoku Six<\/em>
\nWill arrive late on Monday<\/em>
\nMy mojo’s returned<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A few months ago, I went to the\u00a0Folk Life\u00a0festival for the first time. It’s a music and street food bonanza and a friend was performing so K and I braved the heavy traffic and navigated our way toward the Exhibition hall. A swish and a loud collective gasp from a crowd stopped us in our tracks, and there, standing in the middle, was a juggler. Now, I’m no juggling expert, but this guy was something special. First of all, he was dressed like\u00a0Hansel from Grimm’s Fairy Tale (or at least how I imagine Hansel would dress) and he was lobbing massive bowling pins into the air. This youthful man clad in old-timey\u00a0garb kept a running monologue going throughout his performance, which included adding other objects into the airborne pins — the highlight addition\u00a0was a child. K and I stood mesmerized and when he passed around a receptacle for donations, I readily tossed in five bucks. It was worth it. I was also struck by how he emphasized how he’s been practicing for 20 years, starting with little bean bags and working his way up to bigger items. “This is how I make my living folks,” he announced proudly. I was impressed. My husband would probably say it’s B.S. but I believe the juggler — he’s that good. If he can make a living throwing and catching objects, I can do the same with my various skills, I reasoned. I’m a bit of a juggler myself, what with all this sewing, writing, illustrating and book-making. Remembering the Folk Life incident bolstered me, and I have finally finally worked up the chutzpah to put my little Furoku\u00a0sidebar button and an explanatory page (it’s somewhat long-winded — I’m working on editing it). It’s a gamble, folks. But I’m willing to keep practicing and evolving. ****************** The giveaway responses are so fun! I especially love the party stories and so far the unbelted look for the dress is winning out. Your Furoku Six Will arrive late on Monday My mojo’s returned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-furoku-membership","7":"category-life","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13881"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13951,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13881\/revisions\/13951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}