{"id":6667,"date":"2012-12-12T12:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2012-12-12T12:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:27:52","slug":"special-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/special-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Special delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_9085.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6668\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_9085.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_9085.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_9085-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_9085-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>I have learned that living in Utah where your neighbors are also your ward members and schoolmates, people tend to drop by more often.<\/p>\n<p>I think proximity allows us to be more open and casual here. In Texas, I wouldn&#8217;t think of dropping by a ward member&#8217;s house without calling first because who wants to drive 45 minutes to find nobody home? In Arizona, it was just too hot to try.<\/p>\n<p>I need to get used to this more open way of living. I tend to change into my pajamas as soon as possible when I get home from church. I felt real triumph when somebody comes by and I&#8217;m not caught with paint in my hair or cooking broccoli. I marked the day when someone dropped by just after I baked brownies and the house smelled so good.<\/p>\n<p>Today I spent all morning baking. With the smell of cookies and bread wafting through the house, I hoped that someone would come by. But they haven&#8217;t, so guess what? I&#8217;m going to be the unannounced neighbor and deliver this bread!<\/p>\n<p>It is, after all, 12-12-12. I&#8217;m going to do something out of the ordinary to celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have learned that living in Utah where your neighbors are also your ward members and schoolmates, people tend to drop by more often. I think proximity allows us to be more open and casual here. In Texas, I wouldn&#8217;t think of dropping by a ward member&#8217;s house without calling first because who wants to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/special-delivery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special delivery<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667","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=6667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6670,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6667\/revisions\/6670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}