{"id":28575,"date":"2019-04-30T22:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28575"},"modified":"2019-04-30T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T03:21:01","slug":"briefly-tell-the-people-you-admire-how-amazing-they-are-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28575","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Tell the people you admire how amazing they are \u2014 before it\u2019s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never forget the dramatic loving effect you can have on the people in your life if you choose to show them. A friend of mine got a message from an ex-co-worker today which said,\u00a0<em>\u201cI have become sentimental in my old age and watching life happen before our eyes and I would hate to think you never realized the impact you have had on me \u2014 personally and professionally. You are truly an amazing person.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0As you might imagine, this made my friend feel really great and it made me really proud of her. That note didn\u2019t cost the sender anything in time or effort, but she made another person feel great. Just remember that you have the chance to make someone feel special, too, every single day. Don\u2019t miss that chance. The time will come when it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never forget the dramatic loving effect you can have on the people in your life if you choose to show them. A friend of mine got a message from an ex-co-worker today which said,\u00a0\u201cI have become sentimental in my old age and watching life happen before our eyes and I would hate to think you <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28575\" 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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-briefly","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7qT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575","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=28575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28576,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28575\/revisions\/28576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}