{"id":418,"date":"2012-07-27T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-08-02T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T01:16:50","slug":"saving-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/saving-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"419\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/saving-my-life\/saving-your-life-synchroblog-600x600\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg?fit=600%2C600\" data-orig-size=\"600,600\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;What is saving your life right now? Sarah Bessey&amp;#8217;s synchroblog&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg?fit=525%2C525\" class=\"size-full wp-image-419\" title=\"Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg?resize=525%2C525\" alt=\"What is saving your life right now?\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg?resize=600%2C600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Saving-Your-Life-Synchroblog-600x600.jpg?resize=300%2C300 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a title=\"The intersections of a spirit-filled life\" href=\" http:\/\/sarahbessey.com\/in-which-we-are-saved-synchroblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Bessey, challenged others to post on &#8220;What is saving your life right now?&#8221;<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>What is saving my life right now?<\/p>\n<address>In times past crocheting saved my life. Somehow organizing those threads helped me to organize my life. I crochet less these days, though I hope, after my visit to the optometrist next week, I will see better and in turn enjoy crocheting more again.<\/address>\n<p>These days my computer and the internet save my life:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0the wonder of Skyping with my beloved daughter and granddaughter who are 4,000 km away.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the joy of connecting with family and friends via email, Facebook, shared photos, blogs.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the excitement of learning new things about the world we live in, from the news, from science sites, from gossip sites.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the rest of just zoning out while playing solitaire.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0the fulfilment of creating a slideshow of memories<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0getting a new vegetable in my Community Supported Agriculture share, going online to find a recipe.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0googling the address and printing out directions for a friend who need to travel to another city and wants to know how to get the hospital there to visit a friend<\/li>\n<li>the lostness of a non-functioning computer and the relief in getting it back again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I say loudly, &#8220;Thank God for my computer and the internet!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Sarah Bessey, challenged others to post on &#8220;What is saving your life right now?&#8221; What is saving my life right now? In times past crocheting saved my life. Somehow organizing those threads helped me to organize my life. I crochet less these days, though I hope, after my visit to the optometrist next week, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/saving-my-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saving my life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[39,44],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-computing","tag-gratitude"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}