{"id":279,"date":"2011-08-04T07:04:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rjjblog.maryjanesfarm.org\/wordpress\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-08-04T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T14:04:57","slug":"the-queens-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/279","title":{"rendered":"The Queen\u2019s Throne"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI\u2019ve been deliriously happy and grateful the last year over something that is well, mmmmmm, kind of unmentionable.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe isn\u2019t!\u201d (Carol\u2019s voice.)<\/p>\n

Yes, I am.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"I\u2019m going to share my feelings of gratitude for my new indoor private flush toilet, the one I\u2019ve lived without for 23 consecutive years, 30 total. I feel a little bit like the woman I heard about who couldn\u2019t reach her clothesline so she moved a stool around her entire life. I should have done it sooner, but new septic regulations came with a price tag that was close to $10,000. That\u2019s a lot of money when merely moving a stool around will get the job done. (Word play is such fun.)<\/p>\n

Now, you didn\u2019t think for a minute to write TOILET in your gratitude journal, did you? The next time you have to … be grateful, give thanks whenever you:<\/p>\n

\u2013 answer a knock on your door and you AREN\u2019T holding a bucket of your night waters<\/em> about to find their way into your compost heap. (Urine is full of nitrogen, speeding up the decomposition of things like egg shells and last week\u2019s lentil loaf\u2014the food experiment that DIDN\u2019T make it into public domain.) I\u2019ve also referred to IT (when asked by a guest if they could carry my bucket for me) as \u201cOh this? It\u2019s JUST a bucket of LALA,\u201d (liquid activator), adding \u201cno problem a\u2019tall, I\u2019ve got it COVERED.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 wake up in the middle of the night with … not your dreaming self so much in mind, but nature taking center stage; however, FIRST you DON\u2019T have to pull on your boots, layer up, find a flashlight, walk down 22 snowy and\/or icy steps with winter winds howling at you as you stumble along a dark path (another 35 steps), slipping in the snow thinking, \u201cSOMEDAY, I will have it easy like everyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone else. Isn\u2019t that always what keeps us from true gratitude? Others<\/em> have it better\u2014better health, more money, less worry, more vacation days … Well, I\u2019d like to point out something you\u2019ve probably missed when you\u2019re feeling less than queenly\u2014your throne! The next time I\u2019m forgetting gratefulness for all the little things that make my life easier, my reminder is now only a few steps away.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been deliriously happy and grateful the last year over something that is well, mmmmmm, kind of unmentionable. \u201cShe isn\u2019t!\u201d (Carol\u2019s voice.) Yes, I am. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[385,545,633,661,906],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude","tag-gratitude-2","tag-maryjane","tag-nature","tag-outhouse","tag-toilet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}