{"id":6900,"date":"2017-11-16T07:28:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T12:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6900"},"modified":"2017-12-12T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T12:14:05","slug":"big-thanks-for-small-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6900","title":{"rendered":"Big Thanks for Small Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6901\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?attachment_id=6901\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6901\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6901\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6901\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkeys-Paul-VanDerWerf.jpg?resize=584%2C433\" alt=\"Turkeys \" width=\"584\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkeys-Paul-VanDerWerf.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkeys-Paul-VanDerWerf.jpg?resize=150%2C111&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkeys-Paul-VanDerWerf.jpg?resize=300%2C222&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Turkeys-Paul-VanDerWerf.jpg?resize=405%2C300&amp;ssl=1 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo: Paul VanDerWerf, creative commons license<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFamily and friends\u201d people say when asked what they are most thankful for. I agree, though as a run-up to Thanksgiving I\u2019ve been thinking about the small things that warm my heart. Here are five:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our local farmer\u2019s market, considered the best in New Jersey (which is, after all, \u201cThe Garden State\u201d) has added immeasurably to our family\u2019s quality of life<\/li>\n<li>The color blue\u2014not just any shade, the blue of mysotis and morning glories. This will come as a surprise to everyone who knows my favorite color is green. I am not alone:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bluets-Maggie-Nelson\/dp\/1933517409\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1511801257&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=Bluetws&amp;linkCode=li3&amp;tag=victoweisf-20&amp;linkId=b63d0a0c69f80d0ca736226d754ede30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=1933517409&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=victoweisf-20\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=victoweisf-20&amp;l=li3&amp;o=1&amp;a=1933517409\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li>The fish and frogs who call my pond home. Not the snakes.<\/li>\n<li>The folks who\u2019ve come up with new taglines for the news media \u201cDemocracy Dies in Darkness\u201d (Washington Post); \u201cStand with the Facts\u201d (NPR).<\/li>\n<li>The Oxford comma and other grammar rules and conventions that help bring order to the words I put on the page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFamily and friends\u201d people say when asked what they are most thankful for. I agree, though as a run-up to Thanksgiving I\u2019ve been thinking about the small things that warm my heart. Here are five: Our local farmer\u2019s market, considered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=6900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Big Thanks for Small Blessings - it's the little things that count.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","category-the-morgue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-1Ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6900"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6911,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6900\/revisions\/6911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}