{"id":14386,"date":"2023-12-14T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=14386"},"modified":"2023-12-14T11:07:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T19:07:35","slug":"kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learning<br>my flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement:<br>&#8220;If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, please<br>come to the gate immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well\u2014one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there.<\/p>\n<cite>&#8212; From &#8220;Gate A-4&#8221; by Naomi Shihab Nye<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the start of a beautiful prose poem worth two minutes of your time to read, and just the kind of thing that I am happy to read today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poets.org\/poem\/gate-4\">Read the full thing at Nye&#8217;s page at poets.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering around the Albuquerque Airport Terminal, after learningmy flight had been delayed four hours, I heard an announcement:&#8220;If anyone in the vicinity of Gate A-4 understands any Arabic, pleasecome to the gate immediately.&#8221; Well\u2014one pauses these days. Gate A-4 was my own gate. I went there. &#8212; From &#8220;Gate A-4&#8221; by Naomi Shihab Nye This is the start of a beautiful prose poem worth two minutes of your time to read, and just the kind of thing that I am happy to read today. Read the full thing at Nye&#8217;s page at poets.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siBp1-kindness","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14387,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14386\/revisions\/14387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}