{"id":1145,"date":"2004-07-13T20:55:37","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T00:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/its-funny-how-doing-good-things-can-bring-joy-to-your-own-life\/"},"modified":"2007-08-05T17:59:44","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T21:59:44","slug":"its-funny-how-doing-good-things-can-bring-joy-to-your-own-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/13\/its-funny-how-doing-good-things-can-bring-joy-to-your-own-life\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s funny how doing good things can bring joy to your own life."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A few weeks ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/27\/all-the-cool-kids-are-doing-it\/\">wrote an entry<\/a> to encourage people to donate to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamie.com\/blog\/bookdrive\/\" target=\"NewWindow\">Pamie&#8217;s second annual book drive<\/a>, and mentioned that I donated two books myself &#8211; well, yesterday, I received the following note from the Youth Services Librarian at the Spring Valley Branch of the San Diego County Library:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog_files\/images\/thankyou.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It made me happy &#8211; not to be thanked, per se, but to have concrete feedback that others would have the opportunity to benefit from the donation.  There&#8217;s just something about that feeling, that vibe, that stays with you for at least a little while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I wrote an entry to encourage people to donate to Pamie&#8217;s second annual book drive, and mentioned that I donated two books myself &#8211; well, yesterday, I received the following note from the Youth Services Librarian at the Spring Valley Branch of the San Diego County Library: It made me happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[4,38],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-good-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}