{"id":6697,"date":"2010-11-18T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:27","slug":"day-10-christmas-kitties-poster-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=6697","title":{"rendered":"Day 10 – Christmas Kitties Poster (Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Another embarassing relic from my garage.\u00a0 Remember the old “Scholastic Book Club” catalogs the teachers would send home with you from school so that you could pester your parents into buying some book or magazine (or poster) for you?\u00a0 Those catalogs\u00a0are still around.\u00a0 As a kindergarten teacher, Melissa still places Scholastic orders a couple of times a year.\u00a0 (Turns out those sneaky Scholastic folks have been bribing the teachers into pushing their catalogs for years with assorted freebies for the teachers themselves!\u00a0 Scholastic entices the teacher, the teacher entices the student, the student begs the parent who eventually gives in and pulls out\u00a0the check book.\u00a0What a racket!) Guess what year I pestered mom and dad for this poster I JUST HAD TO HAVE to decorate my bedroom for Christmas?\u00a0 If you guessed 1979, you are absolutely right (and maybe a little bit psychic … and that’s creepy!).\u00a0 Speaking of “creepy”, I just admitted on the World Wide Web that I have spent the last 31 years clinging to a kitty poster.\u00a0 (You have to admit:\u00a0 they are cute!)\u00a0 But NOT ANYMORE.\u00a0 It is in the recycle box with all the credit card offers that came in the mail today.\u00a0 Of all the things I own, I will probably have the most problem parting with those which are purely sentimental.\u00a0 And I’ve got boxes of emotional souvenirs around here. I gathered the kids around the poster before I tossed it and I gave them a little sermon.\u00a0 I said the poster was proof that I could empathize with them and their desire to hold on to all sorts of toys and trinkets and craft projects.\u00a0 It’s a good thing for me to recognize this tendency in myself because long before we started talking about selling the house, their pack ratting had been a point of contention – last week\u00a0the Drama Queen (age 8)\u00a0cried when I threw away a fragment of cardboard covered in scotch tape to which she had grown attached!\u00a0 I\u00a0went on to tell\u00a0the kids about the rich young ruler who came to Jesus (in Luke 18) and said, “Teacher, I’ve been a good guy all my life and followed all the rules.\u00a0 What do I have to do to get eternal life?” And Jesus responded, “There’s just one last thing… sell everything you’ve got, give the money to the poor and follow me.”\u00a0 And the man walked away.\u00a0 He was too attached to his things.\u00a0 For dramatic effect, at this point I tore my poster and threw it in recycling. When I finished my little sermon, Dats (age 9) asked, “What happened to that guy?”\u00a0 I said I didn’t know … that the Bible doesn’t say anything more about him.\u00a0 My boy Ida (age 7) said matter-of-factly, “He probably went to Hell.”\u00a0 And I believe\u00a0Ida just showed himself to be bolder than 99% of American preachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another embarassing relic from my garage.\u00a0 Remember the old “Scholastic Book Club” catalogs the teachers would send home with you from school so that you could pester your parents into buying some book or magazine (or poster) for you?\u00a0 Those catalogs\u00a0are still around.\u00a0 As a kindergarten teacher, Melissa still places Scholastic orders a couple of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6697","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\/6697","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=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}