{"id":687,"date":"2008-03-02T17:57:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T01:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/tom-hsieh\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T15:57:13","slug":"tom-hsieh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/02\/tom-hsieh\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hsieh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nextgenerasianchurch.com\/2008\/01\/10\/its-not-real\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Hsieh<\/a> is an inspiration to me. How many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuresinparenting.org\/2008\/03\/02\/tom-hsieh-an-inspiration\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gen Xers<\/a> do you know would choose to deny himself of a big house, nice car, vacations, etc., choose to live on $38,000 and give away the rest of his $200k+ a year salary, choose to live in a lower economic neighborhood to share God&#8217;s love?<\/p>\n<p>In this generation of excesses, Tom Hsieh lives <strong>counter-culturally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wish I was that mature and that far ahead in living for Christ when I was his age. Fortunately, it&#8217;s never too late.<\/p>\n<p>I am inspired to live a at least a portion of that kind of life.<\/p>\n<p>I read a blog of a mom who has committed for one year not to buy anything she doesn&#8217;t need. In that same spirit, here is what I passed up recently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A dozen roses for $9.99 at Von&#8217;s. What a deal, but I don&#8217;t need it.<\/li>\n<li>Any pie for $5.99 at Marie Callendar&#8217;s during the month of February. I was tempted on February 29th, but I don&#8217;t need it.<\/li>\n<li>$5.00 PinkBerry, I passed by it yesterday, but I don&#8217;t need it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been extravagant in my spending. Being self-employed, we always live frugally to save for a rainy day. Lately, the storm is hitting pretty hard, with real estate down in the dumps. I am inspired by Tom Hsieh to live for Christ and store my treasures in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hsieh is an inspiration to me. How many Gen Xers do you know would choose to deny himself of a big house, nice car, vacations, etc., choose to live on $38,000 and give away the rest of his $200k+ a year salary, choose to live in a lower economic neighborhood to share God&#8217;s love? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[22,18,19],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saving-money","category-thoughts-on-life","tag-live-for-god","tag-money","tag-saving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}