{"id":4144,"date":"2023-03-07T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4144"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"cleaning-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4144","title":{"rendered":"CLEANING HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I helped a friend clean out the house where she had raised her family. She&#8217;s in her 80s now, the kids have their own families, and her husband passed away several years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After his death, my friend had moved into a small condo. The family home remained in her name, mostly empty of furniture but not quite ready to be sold.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kids and grandkids recently decided that it&#8217;s time to finish the job &#8211; and that meant sorting through remaining papers and knick-knacks and dishes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her husband had gone to seminary later in life and was a voracious reader &#8211; so this sweet lady wanted me to look through his library and take any of the books which I might find useful.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took at least a hundred for myself and had to pass over hundreds more. There was no time or energy to find those unclaimed books a new home.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So they went into a dumpster. Over a thousand books. Billions of words. Countless ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was hard to witness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I helped a friend clean out the house where she had raised her family. She&#8217;s in her 80s now, the kids have their own families, and her husband passed away several years ago. After his death, my friend had moved into a small condo. The family home remained in her name, mostly empty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4145,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4144\/revisions\/4145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}