{"id":244,"date":"2010-01-29T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmayhaps.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/29\/measuring-up"},"modified":"2010-06-09T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T01:16:57","slug":"measuring-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/measuring-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nHow do you put a value on a person?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy value as a blogger? Probably not high given my frequency (which as we know is infrequent).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMy value as a maid is definitely zilch. I&#8217;m pretty good at making messes, not so good at cleaning them up, particularly when baking &#8211; I&#8217;m a catastrophe then. Cooking is only marginally better. Luckily we have a housekeeper who comes in every two weeks to set our house in order.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFacebook tells me that I have 96 friends, so I guess 96 people value me as a friend, or at least want to use me to pad their friends list.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/tweetvalue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"bloglink\">This site<\/a>  sets my Twitter value at $24. That&#8217;ll buy you about four Venti Chai Lattes and two lemon loafs, with a bit of change to spare. Or one very nice skein of yarn.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSome people might set my value by how much money I make, but right now I make no money. Actually now all I do is spend money (groceries, bills, baby), so does that assign me a negative value? On Judgement Day, will I be handed a bill showing my balance owing?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHow about my value as a mother? As a wife? As a daughter, sister, sister-in-law? As a friend? There are so many ways you can compartmentalize your value and come up seemingly lacking by looking at only one segment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is a quote by Michel de Montaigne: &#8220;The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI like that way best.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"footnote\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you put a value on a person? My value as a blogger? Probably not high given my frequency (which as we know is infrequent). My value as a maid is definitely zilch. I&#8217;m pretty good at making messes, not so good at cleaning them up, particularly when baking &#8211; I&#8217;m a catastrophe then. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,10,11,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vfXi-3W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayhaps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}