{"id":486,"date":"2007-09-14T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=486"},"modified":"2007-09-14T00:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:07:00","slug":"measured-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/09\/14\/measured-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Measured Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not feeling well today – aches, a bit of nausea, zero energy. So what a better activity than measuring poor kids’ feet? Last week most of the kids were measured, but there were about 80 that still needed measuring so I did those today.<\/p>\n

Some of the kids were embarrassed to take their feet out of their rubber boots or very run down shoes because of the state of their socks or the filthiness of their feet. The process was very humbling and I noted this last week when a team of child sponsors measured about 500 (X2) feet. The measurer ends up handling their feet and pressing their toes down. The measurer doesn’t dare smell their hands after a batch. I’m not too squeamish normally, but with my oncoming sickness, there were moments when odours reached my nose and I just had<\/i> to turn away.<\/p>\n

The ministry is giving 2 pairs of shoes to each child (runners and dress to the town kids and runners and galoshes\/sandals to the country kids). I’ve got the distribution deal – in about 2 weeks. Should be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not feeling well today – aches, a bit of nausea, zero energy. So what a better activity than measuring poor kids’ feet? Last week most of the kids were measured, but there were about 80 that still needed measuring so I did those today. Some of the kids were embarrassed to take their feet … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-486","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-health","10":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}