{"id":4499,"date":"2009-12-09T00:47:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T16:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4499"},"modified":"2009-12-11T01:04:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:04:18","slug":"happily-or-grudgingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/happily-or-grudgingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Happily or Grudgingly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4500\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/114.jpg?resize=126%2C128\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"128\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tit for a Tat (72)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> I was waiting for a bus in the sun today.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Why not in the shade of the bus-stop?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> The angle was such that I had to be in the sun to look out for the bus &#8211; to flag it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> What happened next?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> Two strangers came by and went into the shade.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> So?<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> It was as if I had become their unspoken volunteer to look out for the bus &#8211; while they enjoyed the shade!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> So what did you do?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> When I had enough of the sun, I went into the shade!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Did one of them take over the watch?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> They didn&#8217;t notice I wasn&#8217;t watching for the bus any more!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> So what did you do?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> I went back to watch out for it.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Happily or grudgingly?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> More like normally, with an ordinary mind.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> How so?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> It occurred to me that if no one came to the bus-stop, I would need to watch for the bus in the sun anyway!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> Haha!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tit:<\/span> And there was no point missing the bus with two unmindful strangers!<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\">Tat:<\/span> It was simple generosity toward them too!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Next aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/thank-you-really\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/thank-you-really<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Previous aT4aT: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/the-way-it-was-meant-to-be\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/12\/the-way-it-was-meant-to-be<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tit for a Tat (72) Tit: I was waiting for a bus in the sun today. Tat: Why not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[361],"class_list":["post-4499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-generosity","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499","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=4499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}