{"id":2813,"date":"2015-05-22T02:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T23:47:51","slug":"vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/?p=2813","title":{"rendered":"vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Name = Amy Spooner<\/p>\n<p>Email = pitty2bulls@yahoo.com<\/p>\n<p>Message =<br \/>\nI received my Sam stone as a gift from a Vt. artisan store owner after<br \/>\nmaking a small buy, she placed it into my bag And, I am so happy that<br \/>\nshe did. I love reading about Sam and his thirst for life and<br \/>\nenjoyment of his many hobbies. I was personally going through a rough<br \/>\ntime having just recently lost both of my Grandparents within months<br \/>\nof one another to cancer. Sam&#8217;s message was a strong one for me.<br \/>\nAlthough losing someone we love hurts&#8230;we must move on and continue<br \/>\nto enjoy life as they undoubtedly would want us to do. Drink up every<br \/>\nminute and &#8216;eat the World&#8217;:) thank you so much for sharing Sam&#8217;s<br \/>\njourney with us and I pray that his message continues to touch more<br \/>\nlives everyday. I personally put my samstone in a mini rose bush<br \/>\nplanter and often move the stone to different plants on my sun porch.<br \/>\nWhenever it catches my eye as I water the plant my heart smiles and<br \/>\nheals just a little bit more. Thank you and Sam so much for that gift.<br \/>\nMay God keep watch over you and yours&#8230;~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Name = Amy Spooner Email = pitty2bulls@yahoo.com Message = I received my Sam stone as a gift from a Vt. artisan store owner after making a small buy, she placed it into my bag And, I am so happy that she did. I love reading about Sam and his thirst for life and enjoyment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-placed-samstone"],"geo":{"latitude":44.5588036,"longitude":-72.5778427,"description":"Vermont, USA"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/samstones.org\/WordPress1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}