{"id":471,"date":"2010-12-18T18:40:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2019-07-15T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T16:01:28","slug":"off-topic-but-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/18\/off-topic-but-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-Topic, but Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recognize many of my readers have their pet charities and causes. &nbsp;For that, thank you. &nbsp;Anything you do to make the world a better place is a good thing, and I&#8217;m always happy to hear stories about it if you want to tell them to me.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who don&#8217;t and are turning your minds to making a positive difference, I have an easy suggestion: &nbsp;Anytime you get a windfall, earmark part of that money for a trip to a warehouse store to buy a few cases of food to donate to your local food pantry.<\/p>\n<p>No, it&#8217;s not something huge, but food pantries often run on tiny budgets and can run short of necessities. &nbsp;So, here&#8217;s things that will be very helpful to most of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Canned meats and stews or spaghetti sauce<\/li>\n<li>Canned Vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Canned Fruit<\/li>\n<li>Boxes of pasta or rice<\/li>\n<li>Baby supplies (wipes, diapers that sort of thing. &nbsp;Those things are NOT covered by food stamps).<\/li>\n<li>Female sanitary supplies<\/li>\n<li> Boxes of juice or milk (dried or fluid)<\/li>\n<li>Infant formula<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The foods you choose should mostly be as &#8220;one-box&#8221; or &#8220;one-can&#8221; as you can make them. &nbsp;Boxed maccaroni and cheese, for instance, really should have milk added. &nbsp;The fewer steps to a functional meal, the better.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this is really off-topic for polyamory and polyamorous relationships, but c&#8217;mon, polyamory is about love at its core. &nbsp;Having enough love to help out where you can is good. &nbsp;It sets a good example for your kids, shows the world that yeah, we&#8217;re part of it, <em>too<\/em> and that we want to do our part to help make it better where and when we can.<\/p>\n<p>I hope whatever you do for the Holiday season is done with joy, love and gay abandon.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mama Java<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recognize many of my readers have their pet charities and causes. &nbsp;For that, thank you. &nbsp;Anything you do to make the world a better place is a good thing, and I&#8217;m always happy to hear stories about it if you want to tell them to me. For those of you who don&#8217;t and are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-polyamory-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}