{"id":7011,"date":"2012-09-02T16:37:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T21:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=7011"},"modified":"2014-08-07T10:26:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T15:26:08","slug":"labor-is-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/labor-is-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor is work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7012\" title=\"ELBOWGREASE\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/elbowgreasenew.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"782\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Labor Day holiday has been an opportunity for many working Americans to celebrate the &#8216;final&#8217; weekend of summer with an extra day off.<\/strong> So, it seems like cruel irony that many will be working tomorrow when the rest of us are blessed with another day to enjoy.\u00a0My hat&#8217;s off to all those that view their work, not only as a means to provide for themselves, but as a dignified way to serve others. In a day and age when a strong work ethic seems to be in short supply, it&#8217;s a real blessing to witness others truly excelling at and taking pride in their work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/elbow_grease_ringer_tee-235762370559236683?rf=238888766466650142\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rlv.zcache.com\/elbow_grease_ringer_tee-r7b9ced10016f4374aba4980d82df1284_f0cz5_325.jpg?bg=0xffffff\" alt=\"Elbow Grease Ringer Tee\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/elbow_grease_ringer_tee-235762370559236683?rf=238888766466650142\">Elbow Grease Ringer Tee<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/thorens*\">Sean Thorenson<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/elbow_grease_poster-228889094426275041?rf=238888766466650142\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rlv.zcache.com\/elbow_grease_poster-r924d71e308f84bc7b7174106ce248063_w2q_325.jpg?bg=0xffffff\" alt=\"Elbow Grease Poster\" \/> <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/elbow_grease_poster-228889094426275041?rf=238888766466650142\">Elbow Grease Poster<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/thorens*\">Sean Thorenson<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Labor Day holiday has been an opportunity for many working Americans to celebrate the &#8216;final&#8217; weekend of summer with an extra day off. So, it seems like cruel irony that many will be working tomorrow when the rest of us are blessed with another day to enjoy.\u00a0My hat&#8217;s off to all those that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7,16,24,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-holidays","category-observations","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1P5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7488,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7011\/revisions\/7488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}