{"id":1220,"date":"2010-12-12T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2014-09-24T21:53:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T01:53:17","slug":"days-274-its-embarrasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-274-its-embarrasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 274-280: It&#8217;s Embarrassing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Days-274-280-Coats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1224\" title=\"Days 274-280 Coats\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Days-274-280-Coats-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I counted 29 coats\/jackets in our house. It\u2019s December. It\u2019s cold (10-20 degrees F). It\u2019s embarrassing to think that a household of two people have 29 coats when some people are on the streets shivering. Some might call it sinful. I was planning to give away miscellaneous items this week but coats seem more urgent. I remembered St. Basil\u2019s words,<br \/>\n\u201c<em>The coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the person who needs it.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\nWhat am I doing with all these extra coats! First, I have to decide what is <em>extra<\/em>. To the purist I suppose anything more than one is extra. Christ challenges us to even give the one I have to someone in need. I\u2019m not a purist, nor yet a saint, so my first step is to figure out criteria for what to keep. Here\u2019s what I came up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 warm winter coat<\/li>\n<li>1 warm winter jacket<\/li>\n<li>1 raincoat with a removable liner that is warm but not enough for really cold days<\/li>\n<li>1 Spring\/Fall jacket<\/li>\n<li>1 work\/garden jacket<\/li>\n<li>1 windbreaker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think having coats for different seasons and degrees of formality is justifiable. My husband also went through his coats with the same criteria so we now have 6 coats\/jackets for each of us (plus one pretty suede coat that I hardly ever wear but it goes with a suit I have). That leaves 16 coats. Many of them belong to our far flung kids who might come home from an equatorial zone at Christmas and need a coat. OK, I\u2019ll save several for such circumstances. That left 12 coats\/jackets to give away \u2013 some mine, some Jim\u2019s, some donated by our kids. Don\u2019t call me St. Basil, but, \u00a0Ahhh\u2026 I feel a little better now. It&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I counted 29 coats\/jackets in our house. It\u2019s December. It\u2019s cold (10-20 degrees F). It\u2019s embarrassing to think that a household of two people have 29 coats when some people are on the streets shivering. Some might call it sinful. I was planning to give away miscellaneous items this week but coats seem more urgent. [&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":[13],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-clothes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}