{"id":1098,"date":"2010-12-21T06:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2010-12-21T06:15:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:15:31","slug":"the-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/21\/the-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sent my son, Jake,\u00a0 a Christmas card with a gift card inside.\u00a0 He is turning 18 in 3 months and he doesn&#8217;t talk to me much.\u00a0 Actually he doesn&#8217;t talk to me at all.\u00a0 I catch glimpses of him on facebook when he posts something now and then, but we don&#8217;t interact.\u00a0 Of course, I didn&#8217;t talk to my Mom much when I was his age.\u00a0 In fact, I think there was quite a long time that I didn&#8217;t talk to her at all.\u00a0 When you are on the brink of adulthood, you kind of just want to do your own thing.<\/p>\n<p>I sent him a Christmas card with a gift card inside and I worried, of course, that the gift card meant that I had no idea what he wanted for Christmas.\u00a0 But that worry only lasted a moment.\u00a0 I think he is the better judge of what he wants at this point in his life.\u00a0 A gift card is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>I went to the post office on Friday and stood in the very long line.\u00a0 I also sent cookies that Lucas made for everyone in really cool cookie containers.\u00a0 I sent the Christmas card to Jake wondering what he will get with his gift card.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight he messaged me for the first time in a few months and he thanked me for the card and money and we joked for a moment about what he might buy with it.\u00a0 I read the text message over and over and realized that it is those little things that are important now.<\/p>\n\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"ddac3911c67bc0e3db301fc01952e3bc\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-2037599131475204\";\r\n\/* lworld 234x60, created 11\/29\/10 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8077549087\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sent my son, Jake,\u00a0 a Christmas card with a gift card inside.\u00a0 He is turning 18 in 3 months and he doesn&#8217;t talk to me much.\u00a0 Actually he doesn&#8217;t talk to me at all.\u00a0 I catch glimpses of him &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/12\/21\/the-little-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lyrehcworld.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}