{"id":17,"date":"2009-03-29T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shaublaw.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pleasure-in-the-little-things\/"},"modified":"2011-01-02T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T19:55:04","slug":"pleasure-in-the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pleasure-in-the-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasure in the Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-143\" href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pleasure-in-the-little-things\/butterfly\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-143\" title=\"butterfly\" src=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/butterfly-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Tonight I got to hang with my 16 year old daughter. We had leftovers, hung out for about a half hour and then went our separate ways. She\u2019s doing her homework and I\u2019m here typing this. Her mom\u2019s with a good friend who fell a month ago and broke her arm so bad that a piece of the bone was found a couple weeks later in the flower bed. I\u2019m serious. I\u2019ve heard of bone meal fertilizer, but I think that\u2019s taking gardening too far. Anyway, she is in recovery, but still needs a good friend\u2019s help and TLC and that\u2019s where my love is tonight. My girl is a teenager so \u201cMum\u201d is definitely the word. She knows this drives me nuts &#8211; I took her to the bookstore yesterday and I asked, \u201cWhat are you getting?\u201d and she replied devilishly, \u201cA book.\u201d Well thanks a lot for the deep info. I log onto the online news and I see that the AIG execs are trying to use our dollars for multimillion dollar bonuses. Our country\u2019s drive for more, bigger, richer is what drove us to the current brink and I think it arises in part from our collective failure to embrace the pleasure in the little things. They\u2019re really not so little. To hang out with my beautiful child tonight and engage in a 20 minute \u201cnothing much\u201d conversation over leftovers was very sweet. Asking a question and getting a real answer feels like hitting a vein of gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I got to hang with my 16 year old daughter. We had leftovers, hung out for about a half hour and then went our separate ways. She\u2019s doing her homework and I\u2019m here typing this. Her mom\u2019s with a good friend who fell a month ago and broke her arm so bad that a <a href=\"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/pleasure-in-the-little-things\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[22,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}