{"id":411,"date":"2025-03-07T19:25:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/?p=411"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:49:39","slug":"breaking-the-ice-with-a-gift-on-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/breaking-the-ice-with-a-gift-on-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking the ice with a gift on the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>When I was a kid, my family celebrated May Day.\u00a0 May Day is a celebration of the beginning of Spring and is remembered on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> day of May.\u00a0 It is customary on May Day to anonymously leave a small basket of flowers on a neighbor\u2019s doorknob.\u00a0 We had a couple of widows who lived on our street that we often remembered on holidays.\u00a0 My mother helped me prepare the small paper woven gift baskets with flowers.\u00a0 Mom would walk with me to their driveway, I would sneak up to their door, leave the gift basket and flowers on the doorknob, and we\u2019d sneak away.<\/h4>\n<h4>As an adult, I\u2019ve used this idea in my neighborhood as a means to meet and get to know my neighbors.\u00a0 On most holidays, I\u2019ll prepare a small gift bag with holiday-appropriate candy or small gifts and leave it on my neighbors\u2019 doorknobs.\u00a0 If they are home, I will knock on the door and say hello and we\u2019ll chat for a few minutes.\u00a0 I also include a note in the gift bag with my name, my husband\u2019s name and our phone numbers.\u00a0 I remind our neighbors that our phone numbers are in the bag in case we can ever do anything for them.\u00a0\u00a0 As time has passed, our conversations have moved passed names and the weather and on to important events happening in their lives.\u00a0 This super simple action has made a huge difference in the relationships I have with my neighbors!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, my family celebrated May Day.\u00a0 May Day is a celebration of the beginning of Spring and is remembered on the 1st day of May.\u00a0 It <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/breaking-the-ice-with-a-gift-on-the-door\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityofesmo.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}