{"id":1194,"date":"2011-12-27T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2011-12-27T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T14:24:18","slug":"the-simplest-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"The Simplest Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite teachings I&#8217;ve gleaned from Islam is that smiling is a form of charity. I love that thought, and it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s universally true, I believe. It&#8217;s certainly where we can start giving to each other, and from it can follow so much other goodness.<\/p>\n<p>Take some time to smile at other people today. I know that every time I&#8217;ve been smiled at by a random stranger as we pass by, I&#8217;ve had a better day. When a good friend or someone in my family smiles, it&#8217;s even better. If reading this makes you smile, I&#8217;m glad I helped in some way. If you go and start smiling at others because of this, then we may have a movement on our hands.<\/p>\n<p>Or should I say on our faces? No matter: smile, and make your brothers and sisters in humanity feel better. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite teachings I&#8217;ve gleaned from Islam is that smiling is a form of charity. I love that thought, and it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s universally true, I believe. It&#8217;s certainly where we can start giving to each other, and from it can follow so much other goodness. Take some time to smile at other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}