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<\/strong><\/p>\nSuper Short Story #333: Scare<\/strong><\/p>\n He thanked instead of scolding her, Because it made him realise There is always a gap, Super Short Story #333: Scare He thanked instead of scolding her, for the truly unexpected ‘scare’ \u2014 her sudden…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[123,118,89],"class_list":["post-15091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-anger","tag-fear","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-606-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor the truly unexpected ‘scare’ \u2014
\nher sudden entrance and loud ‘boo!’
\nwhile he was working all alone.<\/p>\n
\nthat it is really possible to,
\ndespite a ‘natural’ reaction
\nof a physical spike of spine-chill,
\nto have no follow-up mental fear or anger.<\/p>\n
\nfor us to choose our responses mindfully,
\ninstead of following our habits unmindfully.
\nWe can choose how we feel and respond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"