{"id":6444,"date":"2024-09-17T19:30:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2024-09-17T19:31:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T01:31:10","slug":"being-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2024\/09\/17\/being-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She came walking across the room as everyone else was walking out the door. There was a smile on her face, which is not really saying much, since she is always smiling.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mi Mila. What&rsquo;s up?&rdquo; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. Hasan,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I just want to say thank you for teaching us so &#8230; earnestly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>I smiled and tried to think what it is that I do &ldquo;earnestly&rdquo;. Maybe it was&#8230; But of course that misses the point. She had just given me a stunningly wonderful compliment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Thank you, Mila,&rdquo; I said. &ldquo;What a sweet thing to say. You&rsquo;ve made my day.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She came walking across the room as everyone else was walking out the door. There was a smile on her face, which is not really saying much, since she is always smiling. &ldquo;Mi Mila. What&rsquo;s up?&rdquo; I asked. &ldquo;Mr. Hasan,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I just want to say thank you for teaching us so &#8230; earnestly.&rdquo; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6446,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}