{"id":644,"date":"2009-08-04T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=644"},"modified":"2009-08-04T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T14:21:00","slug":"did-your-mom-not-teach-you-manners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=644","title":{"rendered":"Did Your Mom Not Teach You Manners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SnhV7ECgJ4I\/AAAAAAAACPQ\/l3XM57dq7vw\/s1600-h\/DSC_0106.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 268px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_ESvCH9ghcAI\/SnhV7ECgJ4I\/AAAAAAAACPQ\/l3XM57dq7vw\/s400\/DSC_0106.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366133429196826498\" \/><\/a><br \/>This weekend I was at McDonalds with my boys and their cousins.  We were eating in and waiting out the rain to go for a swim.<\/p>\n<p>A older man stops by the table on his way out.  He looked like a former Greyhound driver as he had a tie pin of that nature.  He was a tall man despite the fact that he was stooped over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Are these children all from the same family?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well yes, these 2 are cousins and I have 6 boys.&#8221; I replied.<\/p>\n<p>He  looked nice.  Then he spoke.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I pity you&#8221; he mutters.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at him and said with a smile &#8220;That&#8217;s not very nice!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other people are listening to this exchange including my boys.<\/p>\n<p>He says, &#8220;well I suppose if they are good kids it is o.k.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I replied &#8220;Yes they are good kids,&#8221; and ended the conversation I couldn&#8217;t help wonder what was his life like?<\/p>\n<p>If I were to guess, I&#8217;d say in one word&#8230;. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Lonely<span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes people so mean, rude and unmindful of other&#8217;s feelings?<\/p>\n<p>I hope that as my boys reflect on these encounters that they always feel the love that is there over the hate of the small minded people in this world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I was at McDonalds with my boys and their cousins. We were eating in and waiting out the rain to go for a swim. A older man stops by the table on his way out. He looked like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/?p=644\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livinglovingbreathingboys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}