{"id":2249,"date":"2007-11-21T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2007-11-21T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:03:44","slug":"click-the-button-one-more-time-as-an-expression-of-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2249\/click-the-button-one-more-time-as-an-expression-of-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Click the button one more time as an expression of Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving, a fact of the calendar that sneaks up on me every year. By Friday, the Salvation Army Santas will be setting up their buckets outside stores, since no one has told the Salvation Army that Americans switched to debit cards in 1995. It&#8217;s all one to me. Cathy loves to give money away, but I despise indiscriminate charity. I&#8217;m all but certain we&#8217;re subsidizing vice, and I have zero doubt that we&#8217;re dulling the edge of husbandry. Of all the problems we might name in the modern world, a shortage of indolence is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>But I <i>do<\/i> believe in putting out fires, pulling drowning kids out of the drink, even rescuing trapped kittens. Life is a beautiful rose festooned with a few thorns, and stanching the flow of blood, when someone gets stung, is a job we each need to do for each other.<\/p>\n<p>In a week or a month, all of the buttons we put up for Aaron Anglin&#8217;s family will come down.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1967\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/AnglinResultsLG.png\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" align=\"center\" method=\"post\" target=\"_blank\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_xclick\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"business\" value=\"jay@thompsonsrealty.com\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"item_name\" value=\"Aaron Anglin Memorial Fund\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"page_style\" value=\"AaronsFamily\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"buyer_credit_promo_code\" value=\"\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"buyer_credit_product_category\" value=\"\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"buyer_credit_shipping_method\" value=\"\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"buyer_credit_user_address_change\" value=\"\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_shipping\" value=\"1\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"no_note\" value=\"1\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"currency_code\" value=\"USD\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"tax\" value=\"0\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"lc\" value=\"US\"\/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"bn\" value=\"PP-DonationsBF\"\/><input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"All donations will go directly to Aaron&#8217;s wife\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"\/><\/form>\n<\/p>\n<p>Before they do, we should hit that &#8220;donate&#8221; button one more time. It&#8217;s not enough. There will never be enough we can do. They&#8217;ve lost more than we can ever imagine, and, in the long-run, they&#8217;ll have to get along without our help. Life goes on. This is but the first Christmas Aleisha and her girls will have to live without Aaron. But if, as an expression of our own productivity and prosperity, we can help to make their Christmas a little easier, that seems like a good way of expressing thanks for all we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving, a fact of the calendar that sneaks up on me every year. By Friday, the Salvation Army Santas will be setting up their buckets outside stores, since no one has told the Salvation Army that Americans switched to debit cards in 1995. It&#8217;s all one to me. Cathy loves to give money away, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5868,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5868\/as-an-expression-of-gratitude-to-the-bloodhounds-heres-an-unchained-melody-for-thanksgiving\/","url_meta":{"origin":2249,"position":0},"title":"As an expression of gratitude to the Bloodhounds, here&#8217;s an Unchained Melody for Thanksgiving","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanksgiving was a holiday established by productive people to celebrate the success of their work. --Ayn RandI love this place -- this life, this earth and this tiny little corner of the net. 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