{"id":1715,"date":"2009-10-09T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2009-10-09T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T02:58:37","slug":"our-button-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/our-button-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1716\" title=\"buttons\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/buttons.jpg\" alt=\"buttons\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Today Timothy, Mark and I played math games. We pulled out the flash cards, dominoes, matching games, geoshapes, dice, and of course,<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">the buttons.<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whenever I pull out my collection of buttons, I smile because they were given to me by my mother-in-law during my first month teaching Paige at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">My mother-in-law sorted buttons of all shapes and colors and put them in little containers with color-coordinated lids; some lids were hand-painted to match the buttons inside. &#8220;They will be helpful in Math,&#8221; she said. She bundled everything up in a package and mailed them to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That package meant so much to me because it said without words, &#8220;I support you in your decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Since that time, we have had many generous donations to our school from family and friends. But these buttons were the first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And 9 year later, the buttons and that quiet support are still treasured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Timothy, Mark and I played math games. We pulled out the flash cards, dominoes, matching games, geoshapes, dice, and of course, the buttons. Whenever I pull out my collection of buttons, I smile because they were given to me by my mother-in-law during my first month teaching Paige at home. My mother-in-law sorted buttons &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/our-button-collection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Buttons<\/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":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extended-family","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","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=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}