{"id":463,"date":"2015-11-04T09:09:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2015-11-04T09:09:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:09:20","slug":"part-two-of-when-harold-met-randie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Part Two of When Harold met Randie\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"harold\"When Harold came into Randie’s life, there was an instant feeling of happiness. This stuffed “thing” was her constant friend, even when Ryan wasn’t around.<\/p>\n

I carried Teddy with me as a small child\u2026 a constant companion (with the furless-ness to prove it) who was there to comfort me. He was a comfort\u2026 when the monsters were out to get me at bedtime, we hid under the sheets. When I was lonely or sad, Teddy was there for me.<\/p>\n

This metaphor works in the adult world where more adult scary things and uncertain-ness plagues us daily. Harold is that “I’ll make it better” stufftie\u2026 both in Randie’s world and in mine.<\/p>\n

Drop into the story which I started posting on the blog at Squidrowcomics.com. Today is part two in the series. Enjoy. Direct link: \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/squidrowcomics.com\/when-harold-met-randie-part-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Harold came into Randie’s life, there was an instant feeling of happiness. This stuffed “thing” was her constant friend, even when Ryan wasn’t around. I carried Teddy with me as a small child\u2026 a constant companion (with the furless-ness[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111],"tags":[173,279,280,10],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","tag-harold","tag-property-of-harold","tag-raccoons","tag-randie","uentry","postonpage-1","odd","post-author-brig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p62KKR-7t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randieandryan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}