{"id":4455,"date":"2010-11-27T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4455"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-19-bowl-and-vase-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4455","title":{"rendered":"Day 19 &#8211; Bowl and Vase (Give)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/015-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We spent our Thanksgiving Day with Melissa&#8217;s family.\u00a0 At the last minute before leaving our house, I was looking for something to take along with us to give to some unsuspecting family member.\u00a0 I pulled a bowl out of our kitchen and a matching vase out of a cupboard and asked for my wife&#8217;s approval.\u00a0 She said, &#8220;Dee gave us those for our anniversary one year, you know&#8230;.&#8221;\u00a0 She paused, looked at my face and then continued, &#8220;I know: we can&#8217;t keep everything.&#8221;\u00a0  Dee was the secretary at the last church I served as youth pastor.\u00a0 I may be wrong, but in my experience there are only two types of church secretaries:\u00a0 Angels and Demons!\u00a0 Dee was definitely an Angel type.\u00a0 She held that church office together and enabled the ministry of the church to go forward on a daily basis.\u00a0  The set got split up just after dessert and before the families scattered:\u00a0 Aunt Sandy took one piece and Aunt Debbie took the other. And, Dee,\u00a0if you should happen to ever read this, please know that we got quite a bit of use out of that bowl.\u00a0 Not so much out of the vase&#8230; my wife hardly ever buys me flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent our Thanksgiving Day with Melissa&#8217;s family.\u00a0 At the last minute before leaving our house, I was looking for something to take along with us to give to some unsuspecting family member.\u00a0 I pulled a bowl out of our kitchen and a matching vase out of a cupboard and asked for my wife&#8217;s approval.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4457,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions\/4457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}