{"id":1385,"date":"2012-02-08T23:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:11:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:11:32","slug":"erma-bombecks-words-on-living-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/erma-bombecks-words-on-living-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Erma Bombeck&#8217;s words on living well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this in the rest room of a domestic violence shelter for women and families during the 2011 end of year holidays. It struck me as so beautiful, and tonight I had a little time to find it on the web and post it. I hope you love it too. This is the wisdom shared by Erma Bombeck after she discovered that she was dangerously ill. Just a little heads up: some of these items are tear-jerkers . . .<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If I had my life to live over, I would have talked less and listened more.<\/li>\n<li>I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.<\/li>\n<li>I would have eaten the popcorn in the &#8216;good&#8217; living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.<\/li>\n<li>I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.<\/li>\n<li>I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.<\/li>\n<li>I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.<\/li>\n<li>I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains.<\/li>\n<li>I would have cried and laughed less while watching television &#8211; and more while watching life.<\/li>\n<li>I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.<\/li>\n<li>I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren&#8217;t there for the day.<\/li>\n<li>I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn&#8217;t show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.<\/li>\n<li>Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I&#8217;d have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.<\/li>\n<li>When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, &#8220;Later. Now go get washed up for dinner.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>There would have been more &#8220;I love you&#8217;s&#8221;.. More &#8220;I&#8217;m sorrys&#8221; &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute&#8230; look at it and really see it &#8230; live it&#8230;and never give it back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted this in the rest room of a domestic violence shelter for women and families during the 2011 end of year holidays. It struck me as so beautiful, and tonight I had a little time to find it on the web and post it. I hope you love it too. This is the wisdom &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/erma-bombecks-words-on-living-well\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Erma Bombeck&#8217;s words on living well&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,31,160],"tags":[534,535],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-best-stuff","category-news-truths","tag-live-life-to-the-fullest","tag-treasure"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}