{"id":639401,"date":"2010-01-03T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26613182.post-599147799557719954"},"modified":"2010-01-03T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T01:06:57","slug":"shoveling-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639401","title":{"rendered":"Shoveling Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">I like shoveling snow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Well, I don&#8217;t really like th actual act of shoveling, especially since the sidewalk in front of my building is so uneven. But I do like the opportunities shoveling snow affords me. Snow shoveling is a cheap, easy way to help out and maybe show you care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">For example, the building next to be is vacant. So no one really shovels there. When I am out there shoveling in front of my building I just look over to the next one and I imagine a little old lady or kid coming down the sidewalk there, slipping and falling and hurting themselves. I can&#8217;t stand the idea, so, I shovel that building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">I don&#8217;t get any extra credit. The owner isn&#8217;t there to thank me. The little old lady who didn&#8217;t fall down isn&#8217;t going to thank me and leave me with her estate after she passes. Nope, I just like the feeling I get when I have done something nice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Some days, if the storm is real bad, I&#8217;ll go around and help two or three people dig out their cars. I get offered money, I get asked what I want. I tell them I don&#8217;t want anything, I just want them to help someone else out some time. Yeah, I saw the movie &#8220;Pay It Forward&#8221;. I think its a pretty good idea, even if the reality is that almost no one pays it forward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Today, perhaps I went a little overboard. I shoveled my place, then I walked one block to the YWCA one block over and salted the icy patches. Then I walked another block over to clear out the sidewalk in front of a friend of mine who happens to be christian who is going through a tough time. I cleared out her sidewalk, salted it and built two snow heads (they sort of look like Sesame Street character heads) for the kids. I&#8217;m waiting to see if she claims that God gave her a gift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">The point is that you are already out there with a snow shovel. You are already bundled up. A little extra work goes a long way. It&#8217;s a great feeling to help someone out who really needed it. <\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">Go forth and shovel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">\n<p><br class='final-break' style='clear: both' \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/26613182-599147799557719954?l=techskeptic.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like shoveling snow. Well, I don&#8217;t really like th actual act of shoveling, especially since the sidewalk in front of my building is so uneven. But I do like the opportunities shoveling snow affords me. Snow shoveling is a cheap, easy way to help out and maybe show you care. For example, the building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GkV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}