{"id":1089,"date":"2010-10-06T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2014-09-24T20:21:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T00:21:19","slug":"extra-does-being-robbed-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/extra-does-being-robbed-count\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Does Being Robbed Count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Days-210-Extra-burglar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1092\" title=\"Days 210 Extra - burglar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Days-210-Extra-burglar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I just learned that our married son\u2019s house was broken into. Two computers and other electronics were taken along with some jewelry. Having survived several burglaries when Jim and I were newly marrieds, I know how upsetting this can be. Even if you have insurance, it\u2019s a hassle to replace things and some items are irreplaceable because of sentimental value.<\/p>\n<p>After calming down from the shock and anger, I started to think about how much harder it is to have things stolen than to choose to give them away. It\u2019s like losing something, but worse. Although my altruistic side admires the Bishop in <em>Les Mis<\/em> who accepts the burglar as a person in need and doesn\u2019t press charges, still my practical side is angry and figures if it were me, I\u2019d at least want to count the experience as equal to giving away a couple month\u2019s stuff. Certainly the cost to my son would probably be more than all the things I\u2019m giving away all year. Yes, our society is on hard economic times, but how should we respond to people who really need the basics of life? Who knows the circumstances of this particular robber, but it makes one think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that our married son\u2019s house was broken into. Two computers and other electronics were taken along with some jewelry. Having survived several burglaries when Jim and I were newly marrieds, I know how upsetting this can be. Even if you have insurance, it\u2019s a hassle to replace things and some items are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}