{"id":705,"date":"2009-11-10T08:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=705"},"modified":"2009-11-10T08:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T12:55:48","slug":"thankful-for-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Thankful for plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Aidans-early-Nov.-visit-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Aidan's early Nov. visit 001\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Aidans-early-Nov.-visit-001_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Apples-and-Aidan-098.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Apples and Aidan! 098\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Apples-and-Aidan-098_thumb.jpg\" width=\"239\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p> We live in a land of plenty.<\/p>\n<p>There is abundance all around us.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it is beyond our reach, but often that is because we aren&#8217;t really intent upon stretching for it.<\/p>\n<p>But when I look in my pantry, and on the shelves of my canning cupboard &#8211; and in my freezer, I see such bounty set aside for use this winter.&nbsp; Strawberries and cherries, apples, and apples, and apples, blueberries, and pesto and jelly, and dried and canned tomatoes. <\/p>\n<p>And in my flour cupboard, rye, whole wheat, pumpernickle,pastry, white and graham flour- all ready to make countless loaves of bread.<\/p>\n<p>And quarts of broth &#8211; frozen and ready to be the base of marvelous soups.<\/p>\n<p>I think I must know how my grandmother felt after a summer&#8217;s work and the fall&#8217;s harvest. I feel well prepared.&nbsp; And blessed.<\/p>\n<p>And THANKFUL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a land of plenty. There is abundance all around us. Sometimes it is beyond our reach, but often that is because we aren&#8217;t really intent upon stretching for it. But when I look in my pantry, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stepsonthejourney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}