{"id":975,"date":"2006-11-22T02:54:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T08:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=975"},"modified":"2013-02-07T00:17:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:17:51","slug":"reasons-to-be-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be thankful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m adapting this story from a cartoon: the original was about \u201cgrace,\u201d but I think it makes a dang good Thanksgiving story. (Unfortunately, I don\u2019t who the artist is, so if any of you know, leave a comment and I\u2019ll provide an additional bit of thanks.)<br \/>\n______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>A mother sits at a table with a sheet of paper in front of her and a pencil in her hand. \u201cOkay\u2026 I\u2019m gonna list five things I\u2019m thankful for today.\u201d She begins writing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\u2022 That my boss didn\u2019t catch me coming in late.<br \/>\n\u2022 That my car\u2019s not making any funny noises.<br \/>\n\u2022 That my property tax bill isn\u2019t due till next month.<br \/>\n\u2022 That the spot on my good suit came out at the cleaners\u2026<\/ul>\n<p>As the mother continues to think, she glances over and sees her daughter with paper and pencil as well. The daughter begins listing out loud:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\u2022 Stars<br \/>\n\u2022 Chocolate<br \/>\n\u2022 Pajamas<br \/>\n\u2022 Dogs<br \/>\n\u2022 Magic tricks<br \/>\n\u2022 Songs<br \/>\n\u2022 Dragonflies<br \/>\n\u2022 Yo-yos\u2026<\/ul>\n<p>As the daughter\u2019s list gets longer and longer, the mother proclaims, \u201cI like your list better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m adapting this story from a cartoon: the original was about \u201cgrace,\u201d but I think it makes a dang good Thanksgiving story. (Unfortunately, I don\u2019t who the artist is, so if any of you know, leave a comment and I\u2019ll provide an additional bit of thanks.) ______________________________________________________________ A mother sits at a table with a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/?p=975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reasons to be thankful&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":""},"categories":[354,14],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitudes","category-unoriginal-material","tag-thanksgiving"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1muBs-fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2938,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnbakken.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}