{"id":530,"date":"2009-01-21T06:30:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teresasweetphotography.wordpress.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2009-01-21T06:30:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T06:30:23","slug":"hey-rhode-islanders-lets-pay-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/hey-rhode-islanders-lets-pay-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Rhode Islander&#039;s!  Let&#039;s Pay It Forward!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This idea is for anyone who lives in Rhode Island. However, if you&#8217;re inspired, you should try to do something like this in your town, city or state!<\/p>\n<p>My mind is constantly racing&#8230;.there are so many things I want to do and sometimes, I never get the chance to put it in action (so to speak). So I&#8217;ve been thinking of doing something like this for a while now&#8230;. I really would love to do something for a RI Homeless Shelter, most likely a Women &amp; Children&#8217;s. I was thinking of possibly &#8220;recruiting&#8221; a bunch of people who are interested and want to help out. I&#8217;ll be posting this on the forums I am active on, here on craigslist, my photography blog and anywhere else I can think of. If I receive enough people who are interested in joining me on this, then I&#8217;ll look into which shelter we can do this for and who will accept this.<\/p>\n<p>Times are tough these days, both physically, emotionally and financially for a lot of people. Especially in the dead of winter. I know each of us are going through tough times, for one reason or another. A random act of kindness can go a long way.<\/p>\n<p>I was generally thinking of something along the lines of having each person who wants to be a part of this, cook and bake something for a specific date and coordinate with whatever shelter decided and we can all bring it for them.<\/p>\n<p>No, a lot of $$ isn&#8217;t needed to spend to do something like this, even just an extra $10 for pasta and sauce. Something that can be stretched to a lot of people who are in these shelters. Going to BJ&#8217;s or Sam&#8217;s and getting the tub of chocolate chip cookie dough for $10 and make a ton of homemade cookies. Things along that line. You could share one of your family&#8217;s favorite recipes or even just bring chips. Anything to show that there are people still out in this world who care.<\/p>\n<p>Why a Women &amp; Children&#8217;s shelter? Well, that&#8217;s just who I would like to do that for now. But if this turnout is good&#8230;we can always plan on doing this again&#8230;for another type of shelter.<\/p>\n<p>What do you say???? Anyone want to join me?? And please, if you DO want to help, all I ask is that you are committed and follow through. And YES, it&#8217;s OK if you DON&#8217;T want to do this too. =)\u00a0 Please feel free to share this with your friends &amp; family, especially if you&#8217;re in Rhode Island.\u00a0 If you have children, let them help too!\u00a0 And if not in RI,\u00a0start your own PIF project.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This idea is for anyone who lives in Rhode Island. However, if you&#8217;re inspired, you should try to do something like this in your town, city or state! My mind is constantly racing&#8230;.there are so many things I want to do and sometimes, I never get the chance to put it in action (so to...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,89,92,97,106,150,169,249,253,255,277,279,297,310,348,349,384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}