{"id":499,"date":"2020-01-08T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2020-01-08T15:25:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T21:25:06","slug":"an-old-diary-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"An old diary note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I talked with Bev. We spoke of the idea of wealth, poverty, and signs thereof. I mentioned that we have all these \u201cdrives\u201d to provide for the \u201cpoor children\u201d backpacks filled with school supplies. I wondered why the schools required all the \u201cstuff\u201d the kids need, especially if they know it is a \u201cpoor\u201d population. I wondered why the parents didn\u2019t take it upon themselves to provide for the kids. Every summer, the big stores have big sales on all this \u201cback to school\u201d stuff.<br \/>\nWe talked about crayons in our childhood. I said that we needed a box of 8 crayons each year, and I made mine last the whole year. Some children had boxes of 16, and I thought that was \u201cwealth.\u201d Bev said that a box of 48 with a sharpener was the height of wealth in those days. Two old women clucking about the decline of society.<br \/>\nLast night, I dreamed that I had that box of 48, with a sharpener, something I never had. This morning I looked in a drawer in my study&#8212;-a box of 48 crayons!<br \/>\nI take these events, the dream and the reality, to mean,<br \/>\n<strong>I have everything I need.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I talked with Bev. We spoke of the idea of wealth, poverty, and signs thereof. I mentioned that we have all these \u201cdrives\u201d to provide for the \u201cpoor children\u201d backpacks filled with school supplies. I wondered why the schools required all the \u201cstuff\u201d the kids need, especially if they know it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}