{"id":1302872,"date":"2019-01-25T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=444730"},"modified":"2019-01-25T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:50:17","slug":"letter-more-than-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/letter-more-than-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: More than neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1548370776134_7687\" dir=\"ltr\">After reading\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/haims-aging-at-home-requires-collaboration-and-a-celebration-column\/\">Judson Haims\u2019 article about helping aging neighbors<\/a>, I was moved to respond with my own story. My duplex partners, Lisa and Lori Delafield and Chip Craft, are more than neighbors. They have become caring friends. Just today a box of still-warm chocolate chip cookies was left at my front door.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer I\u2019m the recipient of fresh flowers. In the winter, my walk is shoveled when we only have 1-3\/4 inches of snow and the service doesn\u2019t come. Year round I get baked goods, soup and other special goodies they make or buy. They are always sharing. They are always there for me, even removing a dead bird that flew into my house or offering to help with my dog.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I hope these examples will encourage others to help an aging neighbor. We\u2019re just waiting for you to offer.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen Caplan<\/p>\n<p>Edwards<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/opinion\/letter-more-than-neighbors\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading\u00a0Judson Haims\u2019 article about helping aging neighbors, I was moved to respond with my own story. My duplex partners, Lisa and Lori Delafield and Chip Craft, are more than neighbors. They have become caring friends. Just today a box of still-warm chocolate chip cookies was left at my front door. In the summer I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 05:50:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}