{"id":1671,"date":"2014-12-24T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2014-12-24T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T09:09:36","slug":"a-christmas-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2014\/12\/24\/a-christmas-present\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas Present"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It was Christmas. I saw a 7- or 8-year-old boy wearing a man&#8217;s overcoat that covered him from neck to toe. The sleeves of the coat were cut short haphazardly to match the boy&#8217;s arm length. I went to the nearby shop. As I had a son of the same age, I knew the size. I bought a nice pair of clothes, with a matching overcoat. Wearing Santa&#8217;s hat, I went back and gave new clothes to the boy. The unexpected joy on his face thrilled me. Unplanned charity brings a strange sense of contentment that money can never buy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Thriveni C. Mysore.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Christmas. I saw a 7- or 8-year-old boy wearing a man&#8217;s overcoat that covered him from neck to toe. The sleeves of the coat were cut short haphazardly to match the boy&#8217;s arm length. I went to the nearby shop. As I had a son of the same age, I knew the size. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2135,250,3205,42,41,3102,590,2420,3200,44,3204,3203,3202,1730,3206,3201],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-arm","tag-boy","tag-charity","tag-christmas","tag-guest-contributor","tag-joy","tag-money","tag-neck","tag-overcoat","tag-santa","tag-santas-hat","tag-shop","tag-sleeves","tag-son","tag-thriveni-c-mysore","tag-toe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}