{"id":3812,"date":"2015-11-30T03:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T03:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2015-11-30T03:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T03:06:53","slug":"helping-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3812","title":{"rendered":"Helping The Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people don&#8217;t like Charles Bukowski, I&#8217;m not one of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bukowski.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bukowski.jpg\" alt=\"bukowski\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bukowski.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bukowski-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Helping The Old<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>was standing in line at the bank today<\/p>\n<p>when the old fellow in front of me<\/p>\n<p>dropped his glasses (luckily, within the<\/p>\n<p>case)<\/p>\n<p>and as he bent over<\/p>\n<p>I saw how difficult it was for<\/p>\n<p>him<\/p>\n<p>and I said, \u201cwait, let me get<\/p>\n<p>them. . . \u201c<\/p>\n<p>but as I picked them up<\/p>\n<p>he dropped his cane<\/p>\n<p>a beautiful, black polished<\/p>\n<p>cane<\/p>\n<p>and I got the glasses back to him<\/p>\n<p>then went for the cane<\/p>\n<p>steadying the old boy<\/p>\n<p>as I handed him his cane.<\/p>\n<p>he didn\u2019t speak,<\/p>\n<p>he just smiled at me.<\/p>\n<p>then he turned<\/p>\n<p>forward.<br \/>\nI stood behind him waiting<\/p>\n<p>my turn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people don&#8217;t like Charles Bukowski, I&#8217;m not one of them. Helping The Old was standing in line at the bank today when the old fellow in front of me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=3812\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-3812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}