{"id":16775,"date":"2019-05-01T21:49:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=16775"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:44:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T04:44:06","slug":"two-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/two-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness Magnified"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_110340481-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16776\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_110340481-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_110340481-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_20190501_110340481-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wandered into some mean girls&#8217; territory today at the library. As I leaned down to get a book off the shelf, I felt a small rubber band wiz by, and perhaps another. Finally a girl spoke up, &#8220;Stop it. That&#8217;s Mark&#8217;s mom.&#8221; I had been kind to this girl before, but wasn&#8217;t sure she would claim to know me. In a staggering act of courage against her peers, I saw my small kindness come back to me, only it had grown. It had taken a new form, and it was better than my simple favor. It had become this girl&#8217;s bravery and consolation, and it put a quick end to the mischief. I gave her my best smile and moved on, not so defeated as I felt before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wandered into some mean girls&#8217; territory today at the library. As I leaned down to get a book off the shelf, I felt a small rubber band wiz by, and perhaps another. Finally a girl spoke up, &#8220;Stop it. That&#8217;s Mark&#8217;s mom.&#8221; I had been kind to this girl before, but wasn&#8217;t sure she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/two-girls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kindness Magnified<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-according-to-angela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16775"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16896,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16775\/revisions\/16896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}