{"id":35,"date":"2005-11-24T00:55:30","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T04:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-02-25T18:58:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:58:11","slug":"small-amount-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Small amount of growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I brought in to work a poster for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perugi.com\/newton\/\" target=\"new\"> Celebrate Newton crafts fair (Sunday Dec 4)<\/a> that we&#8217;re taking Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps to (and however many homemade knitting needles I can  have by then) to put up on a bulletin board there.<\/p>\n<p>As I was looking for a push pin to put the poster up, a lovely young woman walked by and asked what I was looking for. I said, &#8220;just a push pin to put this up.&#8221; She said, &#8220;Oh, I have some in my office, would you like me to get one?&#8221; Normally I would have said &#8220;No thanks, I have some in my office too,&#8221; but I stopped myself in time and said, &#8220;Yes, please.&#8221; I consider that a small but significant growth in social skills, being willing to accept help. I don&#8217;t know if I can make it a habit.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--606b3a542549565ff81f20100f4b41d3-->\n<\/p>\n<p><!--232c4c729aa10af7d7787cfabfd1e113--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I brought in to work a poster for the Celebrate Newton crafts fair (Sunday Dec 4) that we&#8217;re taking Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps to (and however many homemade knitting needles I can have by then) to put up on a bulletin board there. As I was looking for a push pin to put the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=35\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Small amount of growth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}