{"id":627,"date":"2010-04-04T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T11:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:37:03","slug":"easter-a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/easter-a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter: A New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-nothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-422\" title=\"Stuff-nothing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-nothing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Happy Easter! The 40 days have come to an end, but not this project. The more I got into giving stuff away, the more I realized that these 40 days were simply the first round. Although I\u2019ve given many things away, few items will I actually miss. To really stretch myself I\u2019ll need to keep pruning and developing a stronger attitude of generosity. I\u2019ve decided to try giving one thing away each day for a whole year. At first this seemed daunting but then I counted 151 drawers and 228 shelves in our home. If I just selected one item a day from these drawers and shelves that would be 379 days \u2013 well over a year. Even if I don\u2019t find anything worthy of giving away from a particular shelf, I figure I\u2019ve already banked 40 days. I believe that if I keep going, I\u2019ll eventually be confronted with letting go of stuff that is not just excess.<\/p>\n<p>THE FUTURE: It has, however, been time consuming to keep this pace of blogging and taking a photo every day. In order not to have my life taken over by this process, I plan to only blog once a week even though I will be choosing something every day. I still welcome your feedback and reflections. I&#8217;m taking the rest of April to disperse my collected stuff to good homes and resume the blog May 1.<\/p>\n<p><input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"gwProxy\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <input id=\"jsProxy\" onclick=\"jsCall();\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Easter! The 40 days have come to an end, but not this project. The more I got into giving stuff away, the more I realized that these 40 days were simply the first round. Although I\u2019ve given many things away, few items will I actually miss. To really stretch myself I\u2019ll need to keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40daysoflettinggo","category-days-365","tag-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","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=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1725,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/1725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}