Why has it been so hard to give something away? (I suppose it’s the requirement of reciprocity or “paying forward” that is the obstacle. But the requirement need not be daunting.)<\/p>\n
There is one more space for a participant in the giving meme I posted some days ago. Here it is again:<\/p>\n
By the end of the calendar year, I will send a tangible, physical gift to each of the first five bloggers to comment here. The catch? Each person must make the same offer on her\/his blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n Four people took up the offer. (One has not provided a mailing address yet, however, so if I never get a response, there will be two more spots open.)<\/p>\n Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?<\/em><\/p>\n Please, if you don’t have a blog, don’t leave a comment on this post. Others will assume by the number of comments that the spaces are full. And only comment if you want to play.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why has it been so hard to give something away? (I suppose it’s the requirement of reciprocity or “paying forward” that is the obstacle. But the requirement need not be daunting.) There is one more space for a participant in the giving meme I posted some days ago. Here it is again: By the end […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[167,168],"class_list":["post-2164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-recreation","tag-gift","tag-meme"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11544,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2164\/revisions\/11544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}