{"id":1182,"date":"2019-11-10T13:17:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T19:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2019-12-01T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T01:41:35","slug":"seemingly-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"Seemingly Small"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When we ask someone if they are okay<br>let us be kind<br>and authentic<br>and<br>compassionate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not because we are supposed to<br>but because we are all struggling in some large or small way&nbsp;<br>and we need each other to lean on<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you ever notice when people say they\u2019re okay<br>but they have sadness in their voice and pain in their eyes&nbsp;<br>and you just know they feel alone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many people think they have to feel that loneliness&nbsp;<br>instead of asking for a listening ear&nbsp;<br>because the thought of asking for help&nbsp;<br>seems to be a more difficult task than living with the pain&nbsp;<br>and what a tragedy that is<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us be gentle with others<br>because we have no idea what our seemingly small acts of kindness&nbsp;<br>are doing for those we didn\u2019t know<br>had that much pain to bare&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-keep shining<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find me:  <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/secretsofsw\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Secrets_SW\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/melwill23\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/melkai11\/social-work\/\">Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we ask someone if they are okaylet us be kindand authenticandcompassionate Not because we are supposed tobut because we are all struggling in some large or small way&nbsp;and we need each other to lean on Do you ever notice when people say they\u2019re okaybut they have sadness in their voice and pain in their eyes&nbsp;and you just know they feel alone How many people think they have to feel that loneliness&nbsp;instead of asking for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[498,492,502,355,377,42,503,504,51,499,443,296,493,459,140,385,457,320,500,378,497,74,86,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/swsecrets.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}