{"id":6861,"date":"2011-11-19T08:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2011-11-19T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T14:23:13","slug":"count-your-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/count-your-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Count Your Blessings!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Keeping a list of the gifts we have received can be a good way to develop our sense of gratitude and to sharpen our ability to recognize the hidden benefits in things that have not come giftwrapped. &#8212; &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickles.com\/bobliography\/articles\/thanks.php\">Thanks for Everything!<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; F.R. Duplantier, 1987.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-456\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/thanks.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-456 \" title=\"thanks\" src=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/thanks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/thanks.jpg 400w, http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/thanks-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob&#39;s mailbox sign, a Bridgeton landmark, Thanksgiving 2008<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My life, my wife, my family, good health, unemployment &#8212; those are the things I&#8217;m grateful for. Yes, even unemployment, which gives me extra time to appreciate the other four things, and to reflect on the most important gift of all: the promise of salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeping a list of the gifts we have received can be a good way to develop our sense of gratitude and to sharpen our ability to recognize the hidden benefits in things that have not come giftwrapped. &#8212; &#8220;Thanks for Everything!&#8221; F.R. Duplantier, 1987. My life, my wife, my family, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Count Your Blessings! - Politickles","description":"Keeping a list of the gifts we have received can be a good way to develop our sense of gratitude and to sharpen our ability to recognize the hidden benefits in"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[326,331,291,327,332,43,329,330,306,328,325],"class_list":["post-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-gifts","tag-gratitude","tag-health","tag-hidden-benefits","tag-life","tag-salvation","tag-thanks-for-everything","tag-thanksgiving","tag-unemployment","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}