{"id":198,"date":"2006-04-29T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-29T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/2006\/04\/29\/acts-of-charity\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-29T14:20:00","slug":"acts-of-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Acts Of Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They still happen. people are still capable of commiting charitable acts, doing unselfish, altruistic things. That might seem like a stupid thing to say, but I think that a lot of people have forgotten it. Cynicism practised because it is trendy and makes you look cool will eventually become cynicism practised because it is your only mode of thought.<\/p>\n<p>Your face is capable of more than one expression and your mind is the same &#8212; if you don\\&#8217;t use these things then they will get flabby. I was in a financial fix and some of my friends came to my rescue and to tell you how moved I was and how privileged I felt to know such generous people is hardly adequate thanks for them. I have thanked them. If they read this and the other tributes which I have been moved to write then that is something. They never did what they did for thanks, I feel confident in saying that, but I offer it anyway. Pay It Forwad by Catherine Ryan Hyde perfectly captured the power of the altruistic act &#8212; it can work magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They still happen. people are still capable of commiting charitable acts, doing unselfish, altruistic things. That might seem like a stupid thing to say, but I think that a lot of people have forgotten it. Cynicism practised because it is <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=198\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}