{"id":4425,"date":"2022-03-07T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:12","slug":"1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4425","title":{"rendered":"1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first post on this blog was written on November 7th, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a few weeks after I returned from my first trip to Haiti. Melissa and I were feeling the call to move our family there. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do next, but I knew I needed to lighten the load. I had to get rid of some stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I decided that each day I was going to find something around the house to either give away, throw away, or sell. And I would document it on a daily basis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It made for an interesting ongoing experience (for me, anyway) and resulted in the daily documentation of all sorts of weird possessions that I was ready (usually) to part with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, that&#8217;s where I started. It&#8217;s been a wild 11.5 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Blogspot tells me that this is my thousandth post.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am celebrating by drinking 30 milliliters of Nyquil and going to bed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And tomorrow I will write #1,001.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first post on this blog was written on November 7th, 2010. It was a few weeks after I returned from my first trip to Haiti. Melissa and I were feeling the call to move our family there. I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do next, but I knew I needed to lighten the load. I [&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-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","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=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4426,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}