{"id":101,"date":"2004-04-03T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-03T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2004-04-03T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2004-04-03T20:42:22","slug":"when-i-least-expect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2004\/04\/when-i-least-expect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"When I least expect it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I&#8217;m convinced humanity is irredeemable in its self-importance, lack of consideration for others, and general rudeness something small and unexpected happens that makes me think that just maybe all is not lost.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m standing the paper goods aisle at the grocery trying to figure out which size of the brand of toilet paper I buy is on sale when some grandmother-looking lady says to me &#8220;Are you thinking of buying [brand X]?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; I reply cautiously.  &#8220;I have a coupon,&#8221; she says, and proceeds to hand it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Falling back on good manners I thanked her for the unexpected kindness.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I just need to remember this the next time it&#8217;s 40 and rainy and some asshole in a yup-truck tries to run me down in the cross-walk when I have the right of way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when I&#8217;m convinced humanity is irredeemable in its self-importance, lack of consideration for others, and general rudeness something small and unexpected happens that makes me think that just maybe all is not lost. I&#8217;m standing the paper goods aisle at the grocery trying to figure out which size of the brand of toilet paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}