{"id":281,"date":"2007-11-10T20:51:45","date_gmt":"2007-11-10T19:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=281"},"modified":"2007-11-11T20:59:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:59:42","slug":"the-kindness-of-almost-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"The kindness of almost strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is what I like about people. This is the goodness that is within us all.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a guy at work &#8211; well, there&#8217;s a zillion guys at work but this one in particular I sit very near. He&#8217;s one of the good guys, remember them?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a member of the not a dickhead, not a tosspot, not an arsehole, not mean, not nasty, not narrow-minded club.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s usually got a smile, always got time, a good listener (and he lets me read his paper every day).<\/p>\n<p>This week he&#8217;s off to Melbourne (lucky git!).<\/p>\n<p>The Lovely S has friends in Melbourne, <a href=\"http:\/\/aussierockchick.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Aussie Rock Chick\" target=\"_blank\">The Aussie Rock Chick<\/a> who she went to University in Canada with, and The Aussie Rock Chick&#8217;s other half <a href=\"http:\/\/adamisntgoinganywhere.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Not Going Nowhere\" target=\"_blank\">Not Going Nowhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not Going Nowhere is a cool dude, he and I share a number of tastes (a fondness for the Kawasaki ER6F being just one) so I dropped him a line just to ask if the good guy from work ran out of things to do, that Not Going Nowhere could suggest a few things.<\/p>\n<p>At the speed of light came Not Going Nowhere&#8217;s phone number, email address and a long, long list of activities together with the offer that the good guy should get in touch.<\/p>\n<p>Just like that, out of the blue.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never met Not Going Nowhere but his kindness and generosity wipes me out.<\/p>\n<p>I think The Lovely S and I need to get back down under to see these nice people.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what I like about people. This is the goodness that is within us all. There&#8217;s a guy at work &#8211; well, there&#8217;s a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}