{"id":3458,"date":"2012-09-03T23:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T04:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2012-09-03T23:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T04:56:58","slug":"positive-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"POSITIVE ENCOUNTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always pleasant to have a positive encounter with a random stranger. Today on my flight back from Houston I sat by a former professional rugby player from Namibia (southwestern Africa) and his wife. It&#8217;s interestesting to interact with people from places very different from our own environments, and I very much enjoyed our conversation. He was just a very kind and positive soul. He reminded me that there are a lot of good people in the world even when we are often exposed to the other. Thank you<\/p>\n<div data-counters='1' data-style='square' data-size='regular' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=3458' data-title='POSITIVE ENCOUNTER' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_3'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div><div data-position='' data-url='http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/?p=3458' data-title='POSITIVE ENCOUNTER' class='linksalpha_container linksalpha_app_7'><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='facebook' class='linksalpha_icon_facebook'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='twitter' class='linksalpha_icon_twitter'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='googleplus' class='linksalpha_icon_googleplus'><\/a><a href='\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/share?network='mail' class='linksalpha_icon_mail'><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always pleasant to have a positive encounter with a random stranger. Today on my flight back from Houston I sat by a former professional rugby player from Namibia (southwestern Africa) and his wife. It&#8217;s interestesting to interact with people from places very different from our own environments, and I very much enjoyed our conversation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3459,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thats-pat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}