{"id":180,"date":"2008-07-07T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/07\/its-time-to-pay-it-forward.html"},"modified":"2008-07-07T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T01:57:00","slug":"its-time-to-pay-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/07\/its-time-to-pay-it-forward.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Time to Pay It Forward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SHF5ioKCn-I\/AAAAAAAASmY\/TW7hYA_Dmbw\/s1600-h\/excellentblog.jpg\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220087078901161954\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_yz59FVsseJY\/SHF5ioKCn-I\/AAAAAAAASmY\/TW7hYA_Dmbw\/s400\/excellentblog.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>I have been sitting on this for long enough. My poor brain kept prioritizing things all wrong, so now it&#8217;s getting sorted out. I need to pass on the Excellent Blog Award before I pack up this laptop tomorrow, since the ExcellentBlog.jpg file is on this hard drive. Tee hee.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I had actually decided on this Memorial Day weekend, when this individual posted 7 times on Memorial Day alone!<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/maryanng.blogspot.com\/\">Fotomom<\/a>, you&#8217;re getting the Excellent Blog award! Your fun mix of watching your boys grow up with your beautiful photos of flowers, animals, and the ever-shrinking central North Carolina countryside is most awesome.  Keep up the great work, I&#8217;ll definitely need you to when I&#8217;m in NE and it&#8217;s the only way I&#8217;m going to see Joey and Johnny (sniff sniff).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been sitting on this for long enough. My poor brain kept prioritizing things all wrong, so now it&#8217;s getting sorted out. I need to pass on the Excellent Blog Award before I pack up this laptop tomorrow, since the ExcellentBlog.jpg file is on this hard drive. Tee hee. I had actually decided on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[15,14,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-2U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":108,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/03\/its-been-one-of-those-days.html","url_meta":{"origin":180,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s Been One of Those Days&#8230;","date":"25 March 08","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been sorta, well, SLOW today. Last evening at about 11:30pm, I received an e-mail from my friend Susan in Norfolk about her seeing news of one of our high school classmates getting killed in Afghanistan. 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