{"id":149,"date":"2004-09-01T10:11:09","date_gmt":"2004-09-01T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-09-01T10:11:09","modified_gmt":"2004-09-01T14:11:09","slug":"an-invitation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"An Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation came in the mail last week, for the dedication of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clintonpresidentialcenter.org\/\">Clinton Presidential Library<\/a>.  A few years ago I received a letter asking for donations, and having some extra money at the time I sent a check, and since then I&#8217;ve received more fundraising letters, but not having much money the one I responded to was the one selling the Clinton Presidential Foundation Cookbook.  It was an expensive cookbook&#8211;seventy-five dollars&#8211;but it made a nice Christmas present for my mother last year.<\/p>\n<p>The dedication of the library falls in November, on the 18th.  As that falls a week before Thanksgiving, though, I put the idea of attending the dedication out of mind&#8211;it&#8217;s a nice idea, but an unrealistic one, given that I work retail and a week before Thanksgiving is part of the Christmas business season.<\/p>\n<p>My supervisor thinks otherwise.  I presented the idea to him yesterday, in a &#8220;You&#8217;re going to say no, but&#8230;&#8221; way.  He took the idea of attending the dedication in stride, called it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and if I really and truly wanted to go we would work out the details to make sure it would happen.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to give some real consideration to attending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invitation came in the mail last week, for the dedication of the Clinton Presidential Library. A few years ago I received a letter asking for donations, and having some extra money at the time I sent a check, and since then I&#8217;ve received more fundraising letters, but not having much money the one I<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=149\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;An Invitation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[894,4124],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bill-clinton","tag-work","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}