{"id":28,"date":"2013-11-09T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-09T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2015-04-05T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T19:50:21","slug":"8th-day-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"8th Day of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Okay, so I guess I’ve decided to stick to that format, at least for the moment.)<\/p>\n

Today I’m grateful for the peaceful, safe community in which I live. Southlake<\/a> is a small town (27,706 people) in a very large Metroplex (6.6 million people). When I first moved here, I often remarked that it had all the inconveniences of a small town plus all the inconveniences of a big city, all rolled into one. Now I’d have to say the reverse.<\/p>\n

The DFW Metroplex<\/a> is a big city, with a lot of big city advantages (for example and of particular interest to me, teams in all big league sports). Yet Southlake is pretty much a small town, and has some of the nicest facets of small town life: people care about the community. The economy is stable. Crime pretty much stays under control. We citizens have relatively a lot to say about what life will be like in our little corner of the world. And quality of life is a genuine consideration in making decisions about the town’s future.<\/p>\n

Mostly, though, I pretty much don’t have to worry about stray bullets. That’s a lot.<\/p>\n

So I’m grateful for the circumstances\u2014one of which is that I’ve been just plain lucky\u2014that led me to live here instead of many other places in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The view from our carport. Yes, I’m lucky!<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Okay, so I guess I’ve decided to stick to that format, at least for the moment.) Today I’m grateful for the peaceful, safe community in which I live. Southlake is a small town (27,706 people) in a very large Metroplex (6.6 million people). When I first moved here, I often remarked that it had all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originalorknot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}