{"id":3769,"date":"2019-12-19T00:25:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T07:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3769"},"modified":"2019-12-19T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T07:25:38","slug":"the-gift-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/12\/19\/the-gift-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Timothy wants a brother for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, divorced, comes up with an alternative solution and sits Timothy on her lap. \u201cHoney, there\u2019s another way we could give you a similar present. Each month we can sponsor a child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timothy tilts his head. \u201cWhat does that mean, Mommy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, each month we\u2019ll send money to help the boy get food, education, and whatever he needs. Some children in other countries can\u2019t afford these things and need help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Timothy\u2019s face lit up the room with his radiant smile. \u201cI like that, Mommy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Bangladesh, a little boy has a happy holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Lisa M. Scuderi-Burkimsher<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy wants a brother for Christmas. His mother, divorced, comes up with an alternative solution and sits Timothy on her lap. \u201cHoney, there\u2019s another way we could give you a similar present. Each month we can sponsor a child.\u201d Timothy tilts his head. \u201cWhat does that mean, Mommy?\u201d \u201cWell, each month we\u2019ll send money to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8471,8473,250,549,2870,113,42,8472,2869,8020,1098,3590,41,6691,3798,1307,2835,5521,2872,590,7522,73,3260,3510,1821,1661],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-alternative","tag-bangladesh","tag-boy","tag-brother","tag-child","tag-children","tag-christmas","tag-countries","tag-divorce","tag-education","tag-food","tag-gift","tag-guest-contributor","tag-help","tag-holiday","tag-honey","tag-lap","tag-lisa-m-scuderi-burkimsher","tag-mommy","tag-money","tag-month","tag-mother","tag-present","tag-room","tag-smile","tag-solution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}