{"id":29,"date":"2008-01-09T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-01-09T23:06:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T23:06:26","slug":"making-even-a-small-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"making even a small difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=22\">so many questions post<\/a> . . . last year in an effort to create a little meaning in my life I decided to explore volunteer and service opportunities.  I did some set up and strike at PICA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pica.org\/tba\/\">Time Based Art Festival<\/a> and learned about theater geeks, I did some data entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceoregon.org\/\">NARAL<\/a> and mostly learned about the lives of the two women who&#8217;s office I happened to be sitting outside of, and then I landed on my regular gig, a monthly envelope stuffing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bta4bikes.org\/\">BTA<\/a>.  Besides being a cause near and dear to my heart, I like this gig because the activity is super organized and the group always gets things done; plus it gets me on my bike on Saturdays, which is a struggle in this weather.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow I&#8217;m participating for the first time in one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rejuvenation.com\/company\/extra.html#ten\">company&#8217;s days of service<\/a>.  We&#8217;ll be contributing to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vernoniaflood.com\/\">flood relief <\/a>effort for the folks of Vernonia. Guess I&#8217;m getting my onus on.  Hello onus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on my so many questions post . . . last year in an effort to create a little meaning in my life I decided to explore volunteer and service opportunities. I did some set up and strike at PICA&#8217;s Time Based Art Festival and learned about theater geeks, I did some data entry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}