{"id":865,"date":"2006-04-28T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=865"},"modified":"2006-04-28T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T14:07:00","slug":"thanks-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Mom!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote back on <a href=\"http:\/\/tvini.livejournal.com\/166623.html\">March 24th<\/a> about a good experience with educational charity <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/\">Donors Choose<\/a> and mentioned that I was looking at possibly doing a contest for another proposal that had touched me.<\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donorschoose.org\/donors.php?action=view_proposal&#038;id=29043\">this one,<\/a> for a teacher who is in a wheelchair and wanted a wheelchair-accessible overhead projector cart so that he or she could write on the &#8216;blackboard&#8217; and the students would be able to see it.  Well, I gave a small amount, and figured I&#8217;d dole out the rest periodically and maybe run the contest.  However, my loving mother graciously funded the balance on it.  So the teacher will get the cart, and will be able to function better in the classroom.  A special-needs teacher in a special-needs classroom getting what they need to succeed?  I&#8217;m feeling good about that.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Mom, you&#8217;re a wonderful person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote back on March 24th about a good experience with educational charity Donors Choose and mentioned that I was looking at possibly doing a contest for another proposal that had touched me. It was this one, for a teacher who is in a wheelchair and wanted a wheelchair-accessible overhead projector cart so that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}