{"id":8052,"date":"2018-06-01T01:44:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2018-06-01T03:57:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T08:57:21","slug":"the-play-kindness-and-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=8052","title":{"rendered":"the play, kindness, and vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. How could this not top the list???<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/42439117242\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1750\/42439117242_ffcc8e2746.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>2. As we were standing at the Union Square subway station ticket kiosk trying to figure out how to reload our metro passes, an older woman took the time to walk me through it. Having been that person before, I was unbelievably grateful for her patience with tourists.<\/p>\n<p>3. It has been years since Rudi and I took a trip that didn&#8217;t involve visiting my family or his. Lovely as that is, it&#8217;s not the same as going someplace where it&#8217;s just the two of us the entire time. I hope we plan more such excursions.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s been beautiful in your world lately?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. How could this not top the list??? 2. As we were standing at the Union Square subway station ticket kiosk trying to figure out how to reload our metro passes, an older woman took the time to walk me through it. 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