{"id":349,"date":"2010-03-07T07:01:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:44:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:44:17","slug":"3rd-sunday-the-rest-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/3rd-sunday-the-rest-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Sunday: The Rest of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Stuff-nothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-313\" title=\"Stuff-nothing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Stuff-nothing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Life is starting to interfere with my well organized plan of giving things away. Our teenage friend had a C-section a week ago which meant being with her during labor and numerous trips to bring her husband back and forth to the hospital while also trying to help him get a job. Meanwhile, my parents, who live about six hours away, are facing the health challenges normal to people in their 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s. I\u2019m planning a \u201csupport the rents\u201d trip this month. Meanwhile, our dining room ceiling is being repaired which means chaos in that part of the house. I ponder these things and remember that I\u2019m blessed to have a car to transport people in, blessed to have my parents still alive, blessed to have a house and the money to repair a ceiling, but I\u2019ve had to cancel meetings and rearrange my life. It seems frivolous when compared to the daily needs of those who don\u2019t have these &#8220;luxuries.&#8221; Perhaps this \u201cdying to self\u201d is more of what Lent is about than giving things away, but still\u2026<br \/>\nPS: If you can allow me one complaint, I can tell you that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia does not make it easy to get a visa. Now, that\u2019s something to really worry about!<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/><input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is starting to interfere with my well organized plan of giving things away. Our teenage friend had a C-section a week ago which meant being with her during labor and numerous trips to bring her husband back and forth to the hospital while also trying to help him get a job. Meanwhile, my parents, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40daysoflettinggo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}