{"id":80,"date":"2005-01-15T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2005-01-15T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T18:47:08","slug":"oh-for-a-kind-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Oh for a kind word&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my customer service nightmares of late, I have been oh so affirming to all who go out of their way to do the right thing and be kind.  Kindness goes such a long long way!<\/p>\n<p>Jim has been particularly kind to his wife this past week.  Compliments at every opportunity.  This is not normal behavior for my husband who has no gushing tendencies.  What&#8217;s up?  Is that a question better not asked? LOL!  I have told him over and over though that I like every minute of it!  Keep it up good man!<\/p>\n<p>He did have one slip up though.  Yesterday I got out of the shower determined to pretty up.  I got a phone call and was preoccupied so my hair dried before I could blow dry it.  Not usually a good thing.  On this fine day though my hair decided to rejoice in an interesting array of curls.  Not wanting to spend more time rewetting and redrying, I decided I could live with it for the day.<\/p>\n<p>I came out of the bathroom and asked Jim what he thought about my do for the day.  At first, he warmed my heart when he said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;You look just like the girl from Troy with your hair like that&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My eyes took on a shine.  Before I could utter <em>&#8220;well thank you kind sir&#8221;<\/em>, I heard the next half of his sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8230;right after she got beat up.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aaaaghhhh!!!!!  The twinkle in my eye bailed out but appeared to leap straight into my dear husbands.  Men!<\/p>\n<p>So I left it that way&#8230;just for spite!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my customer service nightmares of late, I have been oh so affirming to all who go out of their way to do the right thing and be kind. Kindness goes such a long long way! Jim has been particularly kind to his wife this past week. Compliments at every opportunity. This is not normal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}