{"id":17365,"date":"2015-11-16T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17365"},"modified":"2015-11-16T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:21:27","slug":"terse-tuesday-tidbits-november-17-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-november-17-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Terse Tuesday Tidbits November 17, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif\"><span><span style=\"font-size: 36px\">Kindness Day-<\/span><\/span><\/span>&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span>Somewhat ironically in retrospect, last Friday was designated as Kindness Day&#8230;which took the back seat as the horrific events in Paris were gradually reported.&nbsp; Given the impact such events have on all people of compassion, I find I need, and perhaps others do too, news about kindness and people treating others with respect and dignity&#8230;and so my humble terse choices for the day&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><em><span>Sometimes we can be a better human and increase our success, too&hellip;here&rsquo;s one example:&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><\/em><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/tse1.mm.bing.net\/th?&amp;id=OIP.Md397cc1a31a801244c4163e18c38dd90o0&amp;w=300&amp;h=300&amp;c=0&amp;pid=1.9&amp;rs=0&amp;p=0\" width=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/his-students-were-struggling-so-he-flipped-his-classroom-then-everything-changed?c=upw1&amp;u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5\">http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/his-students-were-struggling-so-he-flipped-his-classroom-then-everything-changed?c=upw1&amp;u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span>What do you think about that idea?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:14px\"><span>Other times we especially need to feel special:<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/a-nurse-makes-wigs-for-kids-with-cancer-and-theyve-got-a-special-twist?c=upw1&amp;u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5\">http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/a-nurse-makes-wigs-for-kids-with-cancer-and-theyve-got-a-special-twist?c=upw1&amp;u=6ffb12f2d750fff1c628f4ed4366938bb526f1d5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800080\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Did you have a favorite dress-up or pretend character to play as a child?&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/tse1.mm.bing.net\/th?&amp;id=OIP.M725706fe50feaddce6f3c6f360d0a680H0&amp;w=300&amp;h=300&amp;c=0&amp;pid=1.9&amp;rs=0&amp;p=0\" width=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800080\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">Hanky alert for a wonderful pop-up shop:<\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"152\" src=\"https:\/\/tse1.mm.bing.net\/th?&amp;id=OIP.Mc87a0d89b9c586f3600013e58ade02f1H0&amp;w=300&amp;h=300&amp;c=0&amp;pid=1.9&amp;rs=0&amp;p=0\" width=\"228\" \/><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/north-carolina-high-school-anonymous-pantry_56461b5be4b060377348c8da?utm_hp_ref=good-news\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/north-carolina-high-school-anonymous-pantry_56461b5be4b060377348c8da?utm_hp_ref=good-news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><span>And a special kitty the UK has begun enjoying again (see the video):<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mog-the-cat-christmas-sainsburys_5645a915e4b08cda34884b0a?utm_hp_ref=good-news\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mog-the-cat-christmas-sainsburys_5645a915e4b08cda34884b0a?utm_hp_ref=good-news<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:18px\">&ldquo;No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.&rdquo;&nbsp;\u2015&nbsp;Aesop<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindness Day-&#8211; Somewhat ironically in retrospect, last Friday was designated as Kindness Day&#8230;which took the back seat as the horrific events in Paris were gradually reported.&nbsp; Given the impact such events have on all people of compassion, I find I need, and perhaps others do too, news about kindness and people treating others with respect <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-november-17-2015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}