{"id":27685,"date":"2012-07-20T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/07\/20\/when-i-was-a-boy-and-i-would-see-scary-things-in\/"},"modified":"2012-07-20T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T17:20:13","slug":"when-i-was-a-boy-and-i-would-see-scary-things-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/07\/20\/when-i-was-a-boy-and-i-would-see-scary-things-in\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, \u2018Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.\u2019 To this day, especially in times of \u2018disaster,\u2019 I remember my mother\u2019s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers &#8211; so many caring people in this world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Fred Rogers (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dearworld.tumblr.com\/\">dearworld<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>In the face of scary dangerous things happening in the world I always come back to these words from Mr. Rogers.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/apsies.tumblr.com\/post\/27632267326\/when-i-was-a-boy-and-i-would-see-scary-things-in#notes-container\" title=\"tumblr\">apsies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mercycorps.tumblr.com\/\">mercycorps<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, \u2018Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.\u2019 To this day, especially in times of \u2018disaster,\u2019 I remember my mother\u2019s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2012\/07\/20\/when-i-was-a-boy-and-i-would-see-scary-things-in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8481,7485,8480,5250],"class_list":["post-27685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fred-rogers","tag-hope","tag-its-everything","tag-perspective","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}