{"id":998,"date":"2010-04-06T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/04\/fresh-morning-luminous-spring-flowers.html"},"modified":"2010-04-06T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-luminous-spring-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/04\/fresh-morning-luminous-spring-flowers.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Luminous Spring Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>There is nothing more simultaneously centering and motivating than coming down the stairs in the morning and seeing a perfect flower caught in a ray of early sunshine.&nbsp; It just whispers, &#8220;Good morning &#8211; today is going to be a good day,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/IMG_5414.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_5414.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/IMG_5414-thumb-450x300-12636.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" height=\"300\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><font><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/fresh-morning\/\"><font color=\"#023d89\" face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\"><strong>Need more morning<br \/>\ninspiration?&nbsp; Read our entire Fresh Morning collection!<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing more simultaneously centering and motivating than coming down the stairs in the morning and seeing a perfect flower caught in a ray of early sunshine.&nbsp; It just whispers, &#8220;Good morning &#8211; today is going to be a good day,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t it? 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