{"id":12543,"date":"2016-09-01T09:36:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2016-09-01T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:57:16","slug":"the-people-of-august-31-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-people-of-august-31-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The people of August 31, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/564x\/37\/ae\/e8\/37aee85a01e89e64c6c9fed354fc5dc5.jpg\" alt=\" : \" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just deleted an obnoxious post listing all the\u00a0things I did yesterday. I listed them under\u00a0categories: Things I did for my kids, husband, church, community, and self.\u00a0Here is the breakdown of how long the paragraphs under these headings were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Things I did for my kids :\u00a0(7 lines)<\/li>\n<li>Things I did for my husband :\u00a0(3 lines)<\/li>\n<li>Things I did for my calling : (4 lines)<\/li>\n<li>Things I did for my community: (1 line)<\/li>\n<li>Things I did for myself:\u00a0(2 lines)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So why did I delete the post? As I surveyed the intricacies of my day, it seemed to me that a lot of what I do is menial. A lot of what I do is repetitive. In all the listing and doing, I lost sight of the beautiful, most important parts of the day. What I want to remember about August 31, 2016 is not how many errands I ran, but who I ran the errands for and who I interacted with along the way. The most important things I did were not things, they were the interactions and connections I had with others.<\/p>\n<p>Some reached out to me; I reached out to some; Others I visited, called, or wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of the people of August 31, 2016:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard<\/li>\n<li>Paige<\/li>\n<li>Daniel<\/li>\n<li>Timothy<\/li>\n<li>Mark<\/li>\n<li>Tiffany<\/li>\n<li>Courtland<\/li>\n<li>Rachel<\/li>\n<li>Jen<\/li>\n<li>Kristy<\/li>\n<li>Charlene<\/li>\n<li>Cindy<\/li>\n<li>Heidi<\/li>\n<li>Dean<\/li>\n<li>Roy<\/li>\n<li>Camille<\/li>\n<li>Sam<\/li>\n<li>Janine<\/li>\n<li>Steve<\/li>\n<li>Ray<\/li>\n<li>Shauna<\/li>\n<li>Annette<\/li>\n<li>Connie<\/li>\n<li>Heather<\/li>\n<li>Kiana<\/li>\n<li>Cree<\/li>\n<li>Sue<\/li>\n<li>Kaye<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer<\/li>\n<li>Maren<\/li>\n<li>Kelly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow, I didn&#8217;t realize how long this list would be. I am feeling really blessed\u00a0to be surrounded by so many good people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just deleted an obnoxious post listing all the\u00a0things I did yesterday. I listed them under\u00a0categories: Things I did for my kids, husband, church, community, and self.\u00a0Here is the breakdown of how long the paragraphs under these headings were: Things I did for my kids :\u00a0(7 lines) Things I did for my husband :\u00a0(3 lines) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-people-of-august-31-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The people of August 31, 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela","category-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12548,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}