{"id":1188,"date":"2008-10-06T08:55:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2008-10-15T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T17:21:55","slug":"something-about-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Something About Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">1993<\/span> 1989, a <em>woman<\/em> newlywed <em>to a<\/em> Norwegian was stopped at the airport because she did not have enough money to complete her trip to meet her husband. Then a stranger, waiting in line behind her, offered to pay the remaining $103. She offered to pay him back when she met up with her husband and had money. So, he wrote down his name and address for her.<\/p>\n<p>The stranger turns out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fnyheter%2Futenriks%2Fpresidentvalg-2008%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D527005&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sl=no&amp;tl=en\">Barack Obama<\/a>. (<a href=\"http:\/\/leishacamden.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/not-that-it-matters.html\">Better translation here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>This story, of course, doesn&#8217;t prove anything. It was just a kind act that one could never expect to receive credit for. And somehow, that does make a difference.<\/p>\n<p><em>Edits in text. October 15, 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1993 1989, a woman newlywed to a Norwegian was stopped at the airport because she did not have enough money to complete her trip to meet her husband. Then a stranger, waiting in line behind her, offered to pay the remaining $103. She offered to pay him back when she met up with her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-obama"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-ja","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}