{"id":5778,"date":"2018-11-18T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=5778"},"modified":"2019-05-30T17:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:48:41","slug":"365179-easy-give-aways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/365179-easy-give-aways\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#179: Easy give-aways"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5783\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Days-365179-socks-sign.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5783\" class=\"wp-image-5783 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Days-365179-socks-sign-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes life gets busy. A relative dies. Emergencies come up\u2026and this blog is overdue. That\u2019s when it\u2019s nice when an opportunity falls into one\u2019s lap. That\u2019s what happened today during my walk. I saw a sign at a neighbor\u2019s house soliciting coats, sweaters, socks etc. for homeless people in the community. It\u2019s getting cold. I often take our unneeded winter clothes to our local emergency shelter but hadn\u2019t gotten around to it yet and the temperature has been dipping into the 20\u2019s.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Days-365179-socks.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5780 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Days-365179-socks-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Aha! I had some new (but the wrong size) and older (but still useful) heavy socks waiting to be taken somewhere useful. It almost feels like cheating because this decision is so easy \u2013 just walk the socks over to our neighbor. An example of not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Boring but useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes life gets busy. A relative dies. Emergencies come up\u2026and this blog is overdue. That\u2019s when it\u2019s nice when an opportunity falls into one\u2019s lap. That\u2019s what happened today during my walk. I saw a sign at a neighbor\u2019s house soliciting coats, sweaters, socks etc. for homeless people in the community. It\u2019s getting cold. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[13,6],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","tag-clothes","tag-recycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","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=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}