{"id":290902,"date":"2004-10-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/including-the-needy-in-the-family-budget\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:37:14","slug":"including-the-needy-in-the-family-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/including-the-needy-in-the-family-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Including the needy in the family budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00abSitting down to balance the monthly expenses<\/strong> has never been a pleasant task in our family, not until we understood that even here, it was important for us to reach a common agreement. This was how the topic of \u201cmoney\u201d acquired a family character. Aside from allotting amounts for food, rent, etc. in our budget, we also agreed to set aside a sum of money to give to people in need.  <strong>One month, there was no way to fit this sum in because the \u201cexpenses\u201d column was much longer<\/strong> than the \u201cincome\u201d column. We felt especially bad because just a few days before, we had watched a TV program about children who were dying of hunger. Our two children, who saw the entire broadcast, came with what little they had, small sums received from their grandparents or savings from their weekly allowance.  <strong>When their grandmother came to visit, the children told her what they had done<\/strong>. \u201cWhat!\u201d she exclaimed, obviously puzzled. \u201cWhy should you help others when you are not rich yourselves?\u201d Our youngest was the first to respond: \u201cBut Grandma, at least we eat three meals a day!\u201d  <strong>A few days later their grandmother arrived with an envelop of money in hand<\/strong>. \u201cI realized I had something extra I could share,\u201d she explained. \u201cAfter all, I eat three meals a day, too!\u201d\u00bb  (L.R. \u2013 Italy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian family\u2019s experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}