{"id":1264,"date":"2011-09-28T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2011-09-28T01:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:32:00","slug":"the-magic-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"The Magic of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post falls in the category of Not Quite Disney But&#8230; when you live 1,000 miles away from the Magic, it&#8217;s always special to find a little bit of the Magic in the everyday. \u00c2\u00a0So, while the title of this post might be a bit cliche, it is definitely true. \u00c2\u00a0I spent the day with my best friend and her beautiful little girl today. \u00c2\u00a0It was the perfect girl&#8217;s day&#8230; a jaunt to the Butterfly Pavilion here in Denver and a shopping trip to pick up the requisite Vinylmation (or &#8216;Mation as the little one calls it :D) at the local Disney Store.<\/p>\n<p>My friend and I have been through a lot together over the past few years, and our very friendship has come under fire on more than one occasion, so anytime we have the opporutnity to find a moment of peace together I consider it one of my greatest blessings. \u00c2\u00a0The two of us and our families had an amazing time at Disney World in June, but I&#8217;m always looking for any opportunity for us to escape the reality that sometimes makes it hard to take a breath. \u00c2\u00a0And, sometimes, we find it in the most unexpected of places&#8230; like sitting in an indoor greenhouse, quiet and reflecting, with hundreds of butterflies flitting around our heads.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s to friendship, to finding magic in the mundane, and to taking a moment out of the madness to stop and watch the butterflies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Butterfly-Pavilion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1265\" title=\"Butterfly Pavilion\" src=\"http:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Butterfly-Pavilion-1024x775.jpg\" alt=\"Butterfly Pavilion\" width=\"524\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Butterfly-Pavilion-1024x775.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Butterfly-Pavilion-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post falls in the category of Not Quite Disney But&#8230; when you live 1,000 miles away from the Magic, it&#8217;s always special to find a little bit of the Magic in the everyday. \u00c2\u00a0So, while the title of this post might be a bit cliche, it is definitely true. \u00c2\u00a0I spent the day with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[393,41,180,227],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-disney-but","tag-butterfly-pavilion","tag-denver","tag-disney-store","tag-vinylmation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raysofdisneyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}