{"id":1751,"date":"2014-09-04T23:18:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T03:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2014-09-04T23:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T03:18:46","slug":"be-it-ever-so-humble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"Be it ever so humble."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/froggerish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1753\" src=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/froggerish.jpg\" alt=\"froggerish\" width=\"700\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/froggerish.jpg 700w, https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/froggerish-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the morning, as I slurp down a healthy dose of coffee&#8230;. I can flip on the TV&#8230;. tune in to the day&#8217;s news&#8230; fire up some fried eggs and oatmeal.\u00a0\u00a0 At night, I can sit at the counter and pay bills, while I listen to Pandora radio.\u00a0 All of these things are luxuries.\u00a0 Luxuries of having a home.<\/p>\n<p>There is an awful lot to be said for having a place to call home.\u00a0\u00a0 A place where you can go at the end of the day, and know that is exactly where you belong.<\/p>\n<p>I have had a lot of different homes in my lifetime.\u00a0 Probably more than some folks&#8230; and certainly fewer than others.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I have always had somewhere to go.\u00a0 To rest my head at night&#8230;. and wake at the light of day.<\/p>\n<p>For that I am thankful.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many people in this world&#8230;. in this country&#8230;.. in our very own communities&#8230;. who don&#8217;t have a place to call home.\u00a0 For this&#8230; I am sad.<\/p>\n<p>Most every place&#8230; every city and town&#8230; will be scattered with quite a few homeless people.\u00a0 And then there are those who have a &#8220;place&#8221; but it isn&#8217;t very fit&#8230; for man nor beast.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully there are people in the world who truly care about this.\u00a0 There are many individuals and organizations trying to allay homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Preble County, we have the likes of the HIT Foundation, and that Mary Bullen &#8230;. try to figure out ways to alleviate homelessness and facilitate better housing.\u00a0 For this&#8230; I am glad.<\/p>\n<p>We all know&#8230; at our deepest of deeps&#8230; that home is the best place to be.\u00a0 All creatures.\u00a0 Great and small.\u00a0 Give a dog a blanket, and he will curl up in it&#8230;\u00a0 bring his favorite bone there&#8230; and make it his very own.\u00a0 Give a toad a toad-house, and there he will sit, and sit&#8230;. until he croaks.<\/p>\n<p>Shelter. Safety.\u00a0 Family.\u00a0 Home is where the heart is.<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230; everyone deserves a decent place to live.\u00a0 I am so very thankful for mine. (And our little toad&#8230; in HIS little Toad-house.)<\/p>\n<p>As a sidebar.\u00a0 We have Frog Protection.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad for that too.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, I did say Frog Protection.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cHome is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.\u201d &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the morning, as I slurp down a healthy dose of coffee&#8230;. I can flip on the TV&#8230;. tune in to the day&#8217;s news&#8230; fire up some fried eggs and oatmeal.\u00a0\u00a0 At night, I can sit at the counter and pay bills, while I listen to Pandora radio.\u00a0 All of these things are luxuries.\u00a0 Luxuries [&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-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}