{"id":84,"date":"2008-12-23T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lng.853.mytemp.website\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2008-12-23T18:19:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T22:19:48","slug":"the-good-samaritan-and-the-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"The Good Samaritan and the Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time I got home from my gig Sunday night, it was nigh on 10:30. The snow in my driveway was higher than the hood of my car. (Those of you in Cali can read about the storm <a href=\"http:\/\/knox.villagesoup.com\/Community\/story.cfm?storyID=139482\">here<\/a>.) I proceeded to shovel, but it didn&#8217;t take long for me to realize that I was never going to shovel a hole big enough to get my car in. It was snowing too fast, and blowing too hard. And, if the plow truck came by again, he&#8217;d probably just fill in all my hard work.<\/p>\n<p>As I was working, a guy came by in a plow truck. I waved him down. &#8220;Would you mind making a hole for me just big enough to get my car in?&#8221; He agreed. About four swipes with his plow truck, and I had a place to park. I went back up to him, and said &#8220;Do you have a card?&#8221; He said &#8220;I&#8217;ve got one in here someplace.&#8221; I said &#8220;I&#8217;ll gladly send you some money for your time.&#8221; He said &#8220;Forget about it <em>Bill<\/em>. Have a good evening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Samaritan; I don&#8217;t know who you were. I didn&#8217;t recognize you, and I didn&#8217;t recognize the company name on your landscaping truck. But the money you didn&#8217;t take from me on Sunday found it&#8217;s way to a Salvation Army kettle. Thank you for your kindness. It is <em>sincerely<\/em> appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time I got home from my gig Sunday night, it was nigh on 10:30. The snow in my driveway was higher than the hood of my car. (Those of you in Cali can read about the storm here.) I proceeded to shovel, but it didn&#8217;t take long for me to realize that I &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=84\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-brhythm","4":"post-84","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}