{"id":332,"date":"2010-06-18T21:38:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/18\/warm-fuzzies\/"},"modified":"2010-06-18T21:38:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T01:38:21","slug":"warm-fuzzies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/warm-fuzzies\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm fuzzies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to receive thank you notes &#8212; from editors who work for me, from authors whose books I&#8217;ve edited (two so far), and now from fellow Hindus in a Yahoogroup created to discuss charity needed in Tamil Nadu state of India.&nbsp; I have been making small donations to help rebuild ancient temples, provide them with oil for their lamps, etc., which is getting me more into discussions of life.&nbsp; I just received my second invitation to stay with someone whenever I manage to visit Chennai (which I plan to do, and see a 5-to-8-year realization date).&nbsp; The good news is that these invitations and extensions of friendship are from people who are involved in their community, which is the type of person I try to be.<\/p>\n<p>My best friend, Frankie, is going in for surgery on Tuesday and will spend the night at the hospital.&nbsp; Nothing life-threatening, just a gall bladder issue.&nbsp; She&#8217;ll need another minor surgery on her foot sometime later. Please keep her in your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>I should be getting my next check from Damnation Books LLC any day now.&nbsp; Hope it&#8217;s a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to receive thank you notes &#8212; from editors who work for me, from authors whose books I&#8217;ve edited (two so far), and now from fellow Hindus in a Yahoogroup created to discuss charity needed in Tamil Nadu state of India.&nbsp; I have been making small donations to help rebuild ancient temples, provide them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}