{"id":9966,"date":"2010-11-17T12:23:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9966"},"modified":"2010-11-17T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T17:23:14","slug":"ex-gratia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9966","title":{"rendered":"Ex-gratia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Gal Holiday&#8217;s goodbye party and garage sale and spotted two Christmas tree ornaments with special meaning attached to each. I delivered one the other day and received a thank you that was two gifts in one: a word for the day &#8211; ex-gratia and the idea to <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/awad\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">sign up<\/a> for the word a day email myself. What a wonderful way to start 2011! I sent a link to three friends so they could receive a word a day too.<\/p>\n<p>Gratia was my second husband&#8217;s last name, the name I used for the five months we were married. So it is not without a big grin that I clicked on <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/words\/ex_gratia.html\" target=\"_blank\">ex-gratia<\/a> to see its meaning &#8211; <em>out of kindness, or a favor<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Gal Holiday&#8217;s goodbye party and garage sale and spotted two Christmas tree ornaments with special meaning attached to each. I delivered one the other day and received a thank you that was two gifts in one: a word for the day &#8211; ex-gratia and the idea to sign up for the word a day email myself. What a wonderful way to start 2011! I sent a link to three friends so they&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2AK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9968,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/9968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}