{"id":8835,"date":"2012-12-03T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2012-12-03T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:54:13","slug":"a-penny-december-3-2012-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/a-penny-december-3-2012-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"A Penny, December 3, 2012 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A penny<\/p><\/div>\n

I did not notice the penny in the parking lot as I ran into the grocery store to pick up food for dinner. I had exactly 18 minutes to grocery shop and be back in my van again. I was on a quest after work but before picking my kids up from school. It caught the sunlight as I opened my van door. I gave it only a moment of thought and then shut my door. I grabbed my phone opened the door and took a picture of the brown penny sitting beneath. \u00a0I shut my van door and drove home as fast as I could without breaking the speed limit. Although my radio was on I only heard over and over again \u201cSee a penny pick it up.The whole day through you\u2019ll have good luck.\u201d I thought to myself I did not have the time to pick that penny up but I made the time to take a picture of it.<\/p>\n

I ran past the penny in my hurried life the first time. The second time I choose not to pick it up for a few reasons that seem ridiculous but given our modern day ideas are justifiable. A penny is not worth enough for me to bend over and pick it up. Pennies have lost their value in my life. They weigh down my purse and I rarely use change. The second reason was that I did not know where that penny had been. It was on the asphalt of a parking lot. I did not want the germs. Lastly, it was not worth my time to pick up a penny I was in too much of a hurry.<\/p>\n

If one of my children had seen this penny they would have picked it up and jumped for joy excited in having discovered a treasure. My younger children would be so thrilled that they would talk about it at dinner time. They have a simple appreciation for small treasures. I think I do also but I am no longer enchanted by a penny.<\/p>\n

What is sad is that I left it there on the ground and found no joy in the treasure. But I think I am not alone. Our society places more value on our time than we do a penny. \u00a0My question to you is this; would you have stooped down and picked up that penny and if so why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“See a penny pick it up. The whole day through you’ll have good luck.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1186,1185,611,669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}