{"id":2138,"date":"2012-03-14T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:31:44","slug":"36524h-paying-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36524h-paying-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Stamps: Paying It Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SFDS fish fry\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn1.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTrUL3c6_lVv9F39VDSu4D2PWXp8FhVJcXPW96_chBivOn-ZSV\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I got plain pizza instead.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/strong> I \u201ctoughed it out\u201d at the last St. Francis DeSales fish fry by purchasing only the cheapest meal for $2. My son, who teaches at the school, gave me a hard time since it\u2019s a fundraiser for the school. He said I could have made a bigger donation even if I didn\u2019t eat more. He\u2019s right of course. This week I plan to pay for a decent meal for Jim and me and then \u201cpay it forward\u201d by paying for a meal for the person in line after me. Where will I get this food money? From the $17 I won at the last fish fry &#8220;split the pot&#8221; raffle. I may even buy some more raffle tickets. Check out the Ted Talk by Nipun Mehta &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kpyc84kamhw\">Designing For Generosity<\/a><strong><\/strong> for more on paying it forward.<\/p>\n<p>PS: For the moment, I&#8217;m ignoring the Styrofoam cups. I know, I know, I could have brought my own cup but it takes awhile to make new habits and I&#8217;m doing this step by step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I \u201ctoughed it out\u201d at the last St. Francis DeSales fish fry by purchasing only the cheapest meal for $2. My son, who teaches at the school, gave me a hard time since it\u2019s a fundraiser for the school. He said I could have made a bigger donation even if I didn\u2019t eat more. He\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-stamp-challenge","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","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=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}