{"id":134,"date":"2009-06-10T20:16:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/2009\/06\/10\/25-things-that-inspire-me-to-create-jewelry-14-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T20:16:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T01:16:54","slug":"25-things-that-inspire-me-to-create-jewelry-14-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/2009\/06\/10\/25-things-that-inspire-me-to-create-jewelry-14-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Things That Inspire Me to Create Jewelry &#8211; #14 New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_9epDco86QeY\/SgGKZbiAK0I\/AAAAAAAAAfM\/XoEguOmfBRo\/s1600-h\/nola+aging+beauty.JPG\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;width: 320px;height: 240px\" src=\"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03ec2_nola+aging+beauty.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span>#14 New Orleans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New Orleans is the very soul of America as far as I am concerned. It is a place where many cultures converge to create a city that celebrates life to the fullest through it&#8217;s people&#8217;s  unique history, music, art, food, literature, architecture and of course the  way it celebrates with Mardi Gras. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I&#8217;ve visited New Orleans 5 times once for Mardi Gras and 4 times more to remind myself that there is so much beauty in the world and not to miss a instant of it. I remember reading an article in the paper once and a writer from The Crescent City was asked if it bothered him that the life expectancy of the average New Orleanian was 65. The guy&#8217;s reply was something like, &#8221; I don&#8217;t mind at all. I&#8217;ve done more in my life than the average person and if I die tomorrow I&#8217;ll die happy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So there you have it. Embrace life, make the most of every second weather it&#8217;s bad times or good because we might not be here tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03ec2_5326730885121730789-43103428009582938?l=heatherskowoodjewelry.blogspot.com\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/~ff\/heathermskowoodcontemporaryjewelry?a=YZBM5cq2GJ0:MOk0oVGSU0I:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03ec2_heathermskowoodcontemporaryjewelry?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds2.feedburner.com\/~ff\/heathermskowoodcontemporaryjewelry?a=YZBM5cq2GJ0:MOk0oVGSU0I:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03ec2_heathermskowoodcontemporaryjewelry?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/heatherskowoodjewelry.userblogs.ganoksin.coms\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/03ec2_YZBM5cq2GJ0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#14 New Orleans New Orleans is the very soul of America as far as I am concerned. It is a place where many cultures converge to create a city that celebrates life to the fullest through it&#8217;s people&#8217;s unique history, music, art, food, literature, architecture and of course the way it celebrates with Mardi Gras. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/heatherskowoodjewelry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}