{"id":5007,"date":"2011-08-20T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2011-08-20T19:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T19:45:07","slug":"random-acts-of-kindness-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/random-acts-of-kindness-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random acts of kindness ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An old man walking along a beach at dawn noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea.\u00a0 Catching up with the youth he asked what he was doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The starfish will die if they are still on the beach when the sun roasts them with its mid-morning heat&#8221;, came the answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the beach goes on for miles, and there are millions\u00a0of starfish&#8221;, \u00a0countered the old\u00a0man. &#8220;How can your effort make any difference?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and threw it safely in the waves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes a difference to this one&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0unknown ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old man walking along a beach at dawn noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea.\u00a0 Catching up with the youth he asked what he was doing. &#8220;The starfish will die if they are still on the beach when the sun \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/random-acts-of-kindness-2\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4198],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","tag-kindness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5009,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}