{"id":1982,"date":"2010-12-19T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/?p=1982"},"modified":"2011-05-31T13:24:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:24:12","slug":"helens-song-on-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/2010\/12\/helens-song-on-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen&#8217;s song on kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>s<em>ometimes all it takes to pull us through<br \/>\nis a smile &#8211; from you<br \/>\na simple  tenderness<br \/>\nto remember us to whats true<br \/>\na little kindness<br \/>\nto remind  us<br \/>\nwhat the heart can do..<\/em>.<br \/>\nShe describes the setting for the song:<\/p>\n<p>every morning at about nine thirty i walk past tomkins square park,<br \/>\nwhere the  food lines are already forming &#8211;\u00a0 and by the time i return<br \/>\nan hour or so  later &#8211; the line will be endless&#8230;it is no different<br \/>\nfrom poverty depicted  in the paragraphs of dickens, george bernard<br \/>\nshaw, dostoevsky or brecht. the  derelicts, the denizens, the<br \/>\ndispossessed. struggling and abandoned. bundled  in shabby winter<br \/>\nattire and eroded by the frigid temperatures. aside from the  various<br \/>\nchristian and hari krishna missions that offer provisions, it  is<br \/>\nalcohol that for most provides the warmth and strength to survive  the<br \/>\nelements.<\/p>\n<p>they  all know me.\u00a0 the neighborhood bums.\u00a0 they listen to me play in<br \/>\nthe park when  its warm &#8211; and they know they can count on me for a<br \/>\nsmile and a hello&#8230;they  are all over, on particular corners, in<br \/>\ndifferent doorways.\u00a0 home is  essentially a cardboard box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sometimes all it takes to pull us through is a smile &#8211; from you a simple tenderness to remember us to whats true a little kindness to remind us what the heart can do&#8230; She describes the setting for the song: every morning at about nine thirty i walk past tomkins square park, where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories-from-our-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilmarkchurch.org\/service\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}