{"id":65,"date":"2011-07-20T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2011-07-30T20:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T00:05:13","slug":"things-and-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Things and gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman who was visiting with her neighbor saw that she was in stirring the soup she was making with a large wooden knife. \u00a0 She walked back to her house and then returned to the neighbor with a beautifully crafted soup spoon and presented this to her friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh i could not take this,&#8221; said the friend, &#8220;it is too nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take it,&#8221; answered the other, &#8220;in my house it is only a spoon. \u00a0In your house it is a cherished gift.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young woman who was visiting with her neighbor saw that she was in stirring the soup she was making with a large wooden knife. \u00a0 She walked back to her house and then returned to the neighbor with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/?p=65\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-thoughts-and-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchoflaughter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}