{"id":3463,"date":"2010-12-17T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2010-12-17T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:14:55","slug":"sabbath-and-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/sabbath-and-thanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath and thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly I&#8217;ll be shutting down the computer to enjoy a sunset-to-sunset <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/09\/24\/a-sabbath-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\">sabbath<\/a>. (You don&#8217;t have the be Jewish &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Light candles. Drink wine. Enjoy peace. Give thanks. Remember things that matter.<\/p>\n<p>Before I close the computer for the night &#8212; First thanks go to YOU. Once again, I don&#8217;t yet know what names to put to the thanks. I wish I did. Amazon hasn&#8217;t told me so far. But I see so much bounty pouring in from my wish list &#8212; apricots! And more apricots! And wonderful movies. And the coolest flashlight I&#8217;ve run into this season. And a dog book I&#8217;ve been wanting for two years. And dog toys. Ava&#8217;s tennie-ball jones is going to be satisfied. <\/p>\n<p>And &#8230; oh man, I can&#8217;t tell you how Robbie is going to love his <i>Combat Bone<\/i> tug toy. Robbie, Mr. Jaws-of-Steel, rarely gets any toys because he can destroy most of them in seconds. But he loves tug-o-war beyond all things. So whoever chose that item &#8212; you can know that you&#8217;ve made one elderly bully dog very happy. If he could meet you in person, he&#8217;d give you his best and most enthusiastic licks. (Erm &#8230; maybe just as well that he can&#8217;t say thanks in person.)<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful weekend everybody, and thanks for being here with your wit, your smarts, and your great hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly I&#8217;ll be shutting down the computer to enjoy a sunset-to-sunset sabbath. (You don&#8217;t have the be Jewish &#8230;) Light candles. Drink wine. Enjoy peace. Give thanks. Remember things that matter. Before I close the computer for the night &#8212; First thanks go to YOU. Once again, I don&#8217;t yet know what names to put to the thanks. I wish I did. Amazon hasn&#8217;t told me so far. But I see so much bounty pouring in from my wish list &#8212; apricots! And more apricots! And wonderful movies. And the coolest flashlight I&#8217;ve run into this season. And a dog&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/sabbath-and-thanks\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sabbath and thanks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}