{"id":344,"date":"2009-12-04T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/heart-filled-with-gratitude\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:40","slug":"heart-filled-with-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/heart-filled-with-gratitude\/","title":{"rendered":"A Heart Filled With Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SxhennkH4XI\/AAAAAAAAEgM\/zNNI_FR5gJI\/s1600-h\/12-3-2009%2B014.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411178987014054258\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/12-3-2009-014.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SxhenWZkuPI\/AAAAAAAAEgE\/uyVpy7AG3O4\/s1600-h\/12-3-2009%2B016.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411178982406404338\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/12-3-2009-016.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/Sxhem8Eqx1I\/AAAAAAAAEf8\/nx0cTJw1XTo\/s1600-h\/11-26-2009%2BTHANKSGIVING%2B081.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411178975339398994\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 182px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/11-26-2009-THANKSGIVING-081.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_EzNMDgf7WQE\/SxhemuulYDI\/AAAAAAAAEf0\/L2UOXOdGcdo\/s1600-h\/11-26-2009%2BTHANKSGIVING%2B108.JPG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411178971757109298\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 166px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/11-26-2009-THANKSGIVING-108.jpg?w=628&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>If you did one of these things over the past three weeks, you know who you are:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Treated Vann and I to a delicious and decadent sushi dinner in the hospital, spicy tuna and all!<\/em><em>Answered question upon question about breastfeeding with a joyful heart and a willingness to help and listen&#8230;<\/em><em>Came over and held Ella while I sat and relaxed&#8230;and also blessed me with a belly full of laughter&#8230;<\/em><em>Sent sweet gifts for Ella, along with thoughtful additions for Charlie&#8230;<\/em><em>Handed me kleenex and prayed for me while I wept in Mom&#8217;s Group&#8230;<\/em><em>Called to say you loved me&#8230;<\/em><em>Gifted me a $25 gift certificate from Amazon, just so I could buy something special for myself&#8230;<\/em><em>Offered to bring over a meal, just because you wanted to&#8230;<\/em><em>Sent me encouraging messages over Facebook&#8230;<\/em><em>Filled my heart with thankfulness and unbelievable gratitude. God knew exactly what we&#8217;d need during this time of change&#8230;and the friends He has blessed me with, along with my mom (who has been invaluable this past week), have kept me going. <\/em><em>I could not have gotten through these past few weeks without the generosity and faith of my sweet friends. You know who you are&#8230;and you mean the world to me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you did one of these things over the past three weeks, you know who you are: Treated Vann and I to a delicious and decadent sushi dinner in the hospital, spicy tuna and all!Answered question upon question about breastfeeding with a joyful heart and a willingness to help and listen&#8230;Came over and held Ella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/almostjuliet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/12-3-2009-014.jpg?fit=240%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}