{"id":1352,"date":"2010-07-20T08:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T08:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:23:53","slug":"a-wonderful-definition-of-home%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/?p=1352","title":{"rendered":"A Wonderful Definition of Home\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>I was involved, peripherally, in an event last week that made me think about the meaning of &#8216;home&#8217;. Part of my business involves behind the scenes public relations work. One of the projects involved the crew\u00a0<\/span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindacraft.com\/\"><span>Linda Craft &amp; Team REALTORS\u00ae<\/span><\/a><\/span><span>\u00a0who supported an effort by one of their team members, David Toothaker, to help raise money for a struggling New England church. Why? Because, for a time, it was home for David.<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>Living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area means, for many, &#8216;home&#8217; started somewhere else. In my case, although I call Detroit home, I lived in mid-Michigan communities longer than my &#8216;home town&#8217;, and have grown roots in the Triangle for the foreseeable future. But &#8216;home&#8217; has a special meaning, sometimes disconnected with place and time. I still wince whenever something terrible happens to the auto industry, although I haven&#8217;t lived in my &#8216;home town&#8217; for more than 24 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span>For David, the call of home meant two weeks of work with his teammates, rounding up donation items, pitching a tent, and holding an old-fashioned yard sale to benefit his old &#8216;home town&#8217;. In the end, he and his team exceeded their expectations for the fundraiser and will help a 175 year old Maine church with some much needed repairs.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can read more about the effort at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lindacraft.com\/2010\/07\/14\/raleigh-north-carolina-help-us-support-a-good-cause\/\">this link.<\/a>\u00a0Maybe it will inspire you to help out your home, wherever you find it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was involved, peripherally, in an event last week that made me think about the meaning of &#8216;home&#8217;. Part of my business involves behind the scenes public relations work. One of the projects involved the crew\u00a0Linda Craft &amp; Team REALTORS\u00ae\u00a0who supported an effort by one of their team members, David Toothaker, to help raise money for a struggling New England church. Why? Because, for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cameronknowles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}