{"id":28452,"date":"2019-04-20T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T23:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28452"},"modified":"2019-04-20T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T23:58:29","slug":"briefly-im-thankful-for-a-neighbor-such-as-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28452","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: I\u2019m thankful for a neighbor such as Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came home late Saturday afternoon to find that somebody had cut my grass while I was gone \u2014 and I had no idea who to thank. I walked around the neighborhood asking if anybody saw what happened, and I finally figured out it was my neighbor, Pedro. (That\u2019s not his real name, but <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=25987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I\u2019ve told you about him before<\/a>.) He was cutting his own grass and did mine while he was at it. He even swept my walkway and porch steps. And he didn\u2019t want any payment. He said it was no big deal. When I hear bigots talk about how we don\u2019t need any more Hispanic immigrants and hear idiocy such as the notion that \u201cwe\u2019re full,\u201d I find myself thinking how much worse off I\u2019d be without people such as Pedro. I\u2019m grateful for his giving spirit. He\u2019s a great neighbor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came home late Saturday afternoon to find that somebody had cut my grass while I was gone \u2014 and I had no idea who to thank. I walked around the neighborhood asking if anybody saw what happened, and I finally figured out it was my neighbor, Pedro. (That\u2019s not his real name, but I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28452\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7oU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28453,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28452\/revisions\/28453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}