{"id":1694,"date":"2005-09-12T22:56:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T03:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2005-09-12T22:56:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T03:56:59","slug":"never-underesti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2005\/09\/never-underesti\/","title":{"rendered":"Never underestimate the value of a kind word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went out to lunch with my father. Just me and my Dad and no kids. We went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/local.yahoo.com\/details;_ylt=AiAqOWgP.5duRR86pllVWWmGNcIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBra2U2OWdoBF9zAzk2NjEzNzcwBHNlYwNyZWNv?id=11544117&#038;stx=&#038;csz=Voorheesville+NY\">Voorheesville Diner<\/a>, which was my youngest brother&#8217;s place of employment, oh, for the past three years I think. He worked there as a dishwasher right until last week, when he left for basic training. His intention was to get experience for college because he hopes to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allculinaryschools.com\/schools\/ID247\/\">Culinary Institute<\/a> someday.<br \/>\nI ordered the chicken parmesan sandwich thinking &#8220;I will take some home for later,&#8221; which I never did-it was too good and I ate it all like s piggy.<br \/>\nAnyway, the people who work asked how my brother is doing and how much they miss him (we have not heard from him yet). His old boss said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how the Marines can possibly make a better person out of Thomas.&#8221; What a nice thing to say. I wish he could read this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went out to lunch with my father. Just me and my Dad and no kids. We went to the Voorheesville Diner, which was my youngest brother&#8217;s place of employment, oh, for the past three years I think. He worked there as a dishwasher right until last week, when he left for basic training.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2005\/09\/never-underesti\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Never underestimate the value of a kind word<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pansyiana","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}