{"id":484,"date":"2009-08-05T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wednesday-august-5-2009\/"},"modified":"2014-12-03T17:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:54:39","slug":"wednesday-august-5-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/2009\/08\/05\/wednesday-august-5-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, August 5, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>It&#8217;s time for greatness-not for greed.  It&#8217;s a time for idealism-not ideology.  It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Marian Wright Edelman<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last night we reflected on what it means to be isolated and\/or lonely, a problem everywhere.  Once again, many wonderful insights were given.<\/p>\n<p>Today a group went up and finished the St. Vincent DePaul ramp in Cyclone.  The rain held off for the day, but it was still too damp to put the non-slip strips on, so a small group will go up tomorrow to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Another small group of PVs went out to Foxy Lady&#8217;s house to finish laying her red tile and new sink in her bathroom, as well as fix a leaky back porch.  As always she was a delight to be around, feeding a wonderful lunch to all the volunteers that were there.<\/p>\n<p>The last two groups of volunteers did a lot in helping us wind down the summer.  One group made a St. Vincent DePaul-Dump-School-Long Branch-Simon-Lilydale trip, while the other group stayed back at the school to beginning the &#8220;deap cleaning&#8221; processes, tackling the four bathrooms and the showers.  All the work done already to close up the program, will make everything that much smoother for Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Tonights dinner, chicken or veggie curry.  I have to say, we have been fed quite well this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for greatness-not for greed. It&#8217;s a time for idealism-not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action. Marian Wright Edelman Last night we reflected on what it means to be isolated and\/or lonely, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/2009\/08\/05\/wednesday-august-5-2009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ef7q-7O","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvprogram.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}