{"id":9951,"date":"2011-04-27T02:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9951"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:59","slug":"day-162-plastic-easter-eggs-give-and-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9951","title":{"rendered":"Day 162 &#8211; Plastic Easter Eggs (Give and Throw)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiMS3sM-lBwXhV6fNfvgVYv6p74gBaq2OA-Xaj49y_Q2F9TqDjTpn6pnX05uJfobe7NZpNDfGufnh2ccmsm6n9JE3ib5oyTBNNovkeffb1xy1BTO5EAEFoSl4GvNhX385FkoS9EcpeaGTM\/s320\/Picture+171.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Typically, Easter has signaled the beginning of weeks of finding stray strands of plastic grass and various plastic eggs scattered around our house.\u00a0 This year, Melissa and I sat down with all the eggs we&#8217;ve collected over this year and past years and sorted through them, throwing away all the mismatched halves and bagging the whole eggs.\u00a0  The whole eggs I am giving to a co-worker whose church has an egg hunt each year.\u00a0 Our kids participated on Saturday and had a good time even though the weather was pretty crummy.\u00a0 Apparently, this church fills something like 11,000 eggs each year!\u00a0 Saturday, the rain started just as the hunt finished, so most folks didn&#8217;t stick around to open their kids&#8217; eggs, empty the candy and return the eggs to the church &#8211; they all went dashing to their minivans and took the eggs with them, so I&#8217;m sure the church will be glad to get these eggs. And I will have fewer things to step on over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typically, Easter has signaled the beginning of weeks of finding stray strands of plastic grass and various plastic eggs scattered around our house.\u00a0 This year, Melissa and I sat down with all the eggs we&#8217;ve collected over this year and past years and sorted through them, throwing away all the mismatched halves and bagging the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9951","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\/9951","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=9951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9953,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9951\/revisions\/9953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}