{"id":419,"date":"2006-05-05T08:10:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2006\/05\/05\/doing_our_part\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T08:10:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T08:10:37","slug":"doing_our_part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/05\/05\/doing_our_part\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing our part"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another beautiful day, despite the dire predictions of thundershowers. I met Mum for lunch, then she and I met the kids at the bus, dropped off schoolbags and lunchboxes, and went down to the river for another walk along the bank.<br \/>\nWhen the kids and I were walking there last Sunday, we were a little dismayed at the build-up of garbage over the winter, and we said that next time, we would bring some bags and pick up some trash. So, this time, that&#8217;s what we did:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cleanup1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/cleanup1.jpg\" width=\"416\" height=\"309\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Colin, Mum and Robert (foreground), hard at work<\/i><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cleanup2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/cleanup2.jpg\" width=\"311\" height=\"286\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<i>Tada!<\/i><br \/>\nWe each filled up one bag, and then Robert found a discarded shopping bag and filled that up, too. We found a garbage bin, dropped off our contribution, then continued our walk down to the playground, where Mum very kindly treated us to a reward:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"robertcone.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/images\/robertcone.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"341\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was another beautiful day, despite the dire predictions of thundershowers. I met Mum for lunch, then she and I met the kids at the bus, dropped off schoolbags and lunchboxes, and went down to the river for another walk along the bank. When the kids and I were walking there last Sunday, we were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/05\/05\/doing_our_part\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doing our part&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}