{"id":411,"date":"2008-02-04T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T08:23:17","slug":"the-meaning-of-a-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/the-meaning-of-a-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of A Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Daddy, is mummy going to die? &#8221; the little blue eyes girl tilts her head and looks into her daddy&#8217;s eyes. As daddy looked into her eyes, tears started to well up. He held her hands, squeezed it a second longer and a little harder than usual. A few moments later, through his swollen eyes, searching for the right words, he said &#8221; No, baby. Mummy is not going to die. She&#8217;ll get well and we&#8217;ll walk the park like we always do.&#8221; Torn between hope and resignation, how he wished these difficult times will soon passed.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl may not understand the value of a dollar now but I assure you when she grows up, she&#8217;ll never forget that it is the dollar that saved her mummy&#8217;s life. Am I exaggerating ? Probably not. Most often, we live in our own lives, chasing our own dreams and wealth, we tend to forget to live as a community, to live as human with a heart.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I like to salute <a href=\"http:\/\/chenpn.com\/2008\/01\/28\/help-holly-only-a-dollar\/\">pelf <\/a>for taking the extra mile to remind us that life is not about your own gain. What you have today may not be eternal, and when you&#8217;re left with nothing, it is the compassion of others that will bring light back into your life.<\/p>\n<p>What goes around comes around. Please help <a href=\"http:\/\/hollyshearing.blogspot.com\/\">Holly<\/a>. I did my part.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/R6akuhor0tI\/AAAAAAAAA0A\/fz2moHKn-c4\/s1600-h\/donate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_M3iNL0ShtgM\/R6akuhor0tI\/AAAAAAAAA0A\/fz2moHKn-c4\/s320\/donate.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162995142036804306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Daddy, is mummy going to die? &#8221; the little blue eyes girl tilts her head and looks into her daddy&#8217;s eyes. As daddy looked into her eyes, tears started to well up. He held her hands, squeezed it a second longer and a little harder than usual. A few moments later, through his swollen eyes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-in-a-days-work","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}