{"id":3129,"date":"2009-10-23T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2009-10-23T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:13:00","slug":"one-thing-today-that-made-you-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/one-thing-today-that-made-you-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"One thing today that made you smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked today by a friend to write down &#8220;one thing you saw today that made you smile&#8221;. Here is what I wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I walked to the new Whole Foods supermarket in Noe Valley. I walked around quite a bit and found myself in the back at the meat and fish department. I smiled at the whole scene. There was a young mother with 2 kids draped on her shopping cart waiting in line. She, along with others in the line stood and waited; she looked uncomfortable at being in line and uncomfortable, somehow in her life situation. She didn&#8217;t know if she was doing things the &#8220;right&#8221; way, going to Whole Foods, spending the money on organic food instead of conventional, having kids, waiting in line. The scene looked familiar, it looked like a scene I was in when I was a child. There wasn&#8217;t a right answer then, or now. I smiled because, in knowing that there is no answer, I know the answer to her worries.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was asked today by a friend to write down &#8220;one thing you saw today that made you smile&#8221;. Here is what I wrote: I walked to the new Whole Foods supermarket in Noe Valley. I walked around quite a bit and found myself in the back at the meat and fish department. I smiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3129\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}