{"id":4722,"date":"2010-07-12T23:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2010-07-12T23:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T04:08:51","slug":"lessons-from-mr-rogers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/lessons-from-mr-rogers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Mr. Rogers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4723\" href=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/12\/lessons-from-mr-rogers\/mr-rogers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4723\" title=\"Mr.Rogers\" src=\"http:\/\/seanthorenson.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/mr-rogers.jpg?w=396\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Every time I sit down to unlace my shoes I can&#8217;t help but think of Mr. Rogers and his OCD-laden opening routine. <\/strong>Granted, &#8220;Mr. Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood&#8221; wasn&#8217;t my favorite show growing up, but because it preceded Sesame Street, I tolerated it. Yes, the freaky puppet show (Lady Elaine Fairchilde and King Friday XIII) and that RC trolley (yeah, I see you working the switch, Fred!) were interesting enough, but the whole shoe changing bit during that melodic rendition of &#8216;Won&#8217;t You Be My Neighbor&#8217; was strangely mesmerizing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone that could turn their homecoming into a symbolic ritual of casual pageantry deserved some attention and respect. The whole idea of taking off the days work coat and shoes, putting them away, and throwing on a comfortable cardigan and a pair of deck shoes may seem a little eccentric now, but the idea of everything having its time and place was not lost on me as a kid. In fact, I was very particular about neatness and would often go into &#8216;Butler Mode&#8217; to pick up around the house. These fits of perfectionism have subsided for the most part. In fact, I&#8217;m almost embarrassed to admit that I&#8217;ve shed almost any similarities to Mr. Rogers&#8217; tidy wardrobe change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I sit down to unlace my shoes I can&#8217;t help but think of Mr. Rogers and his OCD-laden opening routine. Granted, &#8220;Mr. Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood&#8221; wasn&#8217;t my favorite show growing up, but because it preceded Sesame Street, I tolerated it. Yes, the freaky puppet show (Lady Elaine Fairchilde and King Friday XIII) and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1ea","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}