{"id":1104,"date":"2005-08-16T10:51:52","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulwaters.org\/meditatio\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2005-08-16T10:51:52","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:51:52","slug":"birthdays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon&#8217;s birthday is Thursday.  I got his present yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>My father-in-law&#8217;s birthday is in September.  I just ordered some llama parts for him off of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heifer.org\">The Heifer Project<\/a>.  (OK&#8230; it should technically be &#8220;shares of a llama&#8221;, not llama parts.  Then again, you probably started reading more closely at that point, didn&#8217;t you?)<\/p>\n<p>The giving of donation gifts started when my mom sent me an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectlinus.org\">Project Linus<\/a> and asked if I was going to do anything for them.  I offered to donate a blanket or two in her name as a birthday present.  When I told my mother-in-law, she told me that she wanted a donation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heifer.org\">The Heifer Project<\/a>.  My father-in-law asked for the same thing and asked that it be an animal with big brown eyes and soft fur.  I love it when my birthday giving is tax-deductible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon&#8217;s birthday is Thursday. I got his present yesterday. My father-in-law&#8217;s birthday is in September. I just ordered some llama parts for him off of The Heifer Project. (OK&#8230; it should technically be &#8220;shares of a llama&#8221;, not llama parts. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-daily-life","category-family"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-hO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}