{"id":18,"date":"2009-08-11T12:06:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T12:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/\/?p=18"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T19:15:52","slug":"random-acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/downtown-living\/random-acts-of-kindness","title":{"rendered":"Random Acts of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband\u00a0and I sit in a busy restaurant that spills out onto sidewalk tables looking over Rittenhouse Square in Philly. \u00a0We notice as a waiter casually passes a biscuit off his serving tray to a bent over, elderly man who shuffles by. \u00a0When we comment, he shrugs it off and says he sees the man all the time. \u00a0He lives nearby.<\/p>\n<p>What we love about cities is the way people come face to face. \u00a0Random acts of kindness abound.<\/p>\n<p>Recently on the paper good aisle at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopsofcameronvillage.com\/\">Cameron Village<\/a> Harris Teeter I find a coupon someone has neatly placed on the exact size and brand of paper towels that will take $.50 off the price. \u00a0The anonymity of the gift makes me look at every other customer with eyes of gratitude. \u00a0It might have been that young mother who was the donor, or that grandmother\u2026<\/p>\n<p>These small kindnesses spread good will in a way that eclipses the effort taken.<\/p>\n<p>Please write. \u00a0Share your own examples of unreasonable kindness that make downtown Raleigh an unexpectedly generous place to live.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband\u00a0and I sit in a busy restaurant that spills out onto sidewalk tables looking over Rittenhouse Square in Philly. \u00a0We notice as a waiter casually passes a biscuit off his serving tray to a bent over, elderly man who shuffles by. \u00a0When we comment, he shrugs it off and says he sees the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighdla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}