{"id":1498,"date":"2018-01-16T07:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2018-01-16T07:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:09:19","slug":"january-16-the-joy-of-doing-the-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"January 16 \u2013 The Joy of Doing the Unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"January 16 \u2013 The Joy of Doing the Unexpected\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1498\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/011618_1209_January16Th1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">The picture above is of Brian Dietzen who plays Jimmy Palmer on NCIS.  He is at <span style=\"color:#6a6a6a; background-color:white\">Living Desert Zoo<span style=\"color:#545454\">\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<span style=\"color:#6a6a6a\">Gardens<span style=\"color:#545454\">, 47900 Portola Ave, Palm\u00a0<span style=\"color:#6a6a6a\">Desert<span style=\"color:#545454\">, Greater Palm Springs, CA 92260.  One of the birds landed on his head.  Good thing my friend was wearing a hat.  Seeing this picture on Twitter made me ask myself the question, &#8220;When was the last time I had fun doing the unexpected?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">My answer came quickly, I was recently in St. Louis and was window shopping inside a Target store.  I spoke to a customer who asked me a question about the location of an item of merchandise.  I told him I had no idea because it was my first visit to that store.  Later we ended up in the Starbucks caf\u00e9 inside the store and had a wonderful conversation over our favorite hot brew.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">So now I ask you, <span style=\"color:#545454; background-color:white\">&#8220;When was the last time you had fun doing the unexpected?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The picture above is of Brian Dietzen who plays Jimmy Palmer on NCIS. He is at Living Desert Zoo\u00a0&amp;\u00a0Gardens, 47900 Portola Ave, Palm\u00a0Desert, Greater Palm Springs, CA 92260. One of the birds landed on his head. Good thing my friend was wearing a hat. Seeing this picture on Twitter made me ask myself the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1498\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">January 16 \u2013 The Joy of Doing the Unexpected<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}