{"id":61306,"date":"2025-09-08T20:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61306"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T10:19:04","slug":"a-smile-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61306","title":{"rendered":"A Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A smile costs nothing, but gives a lot.<\/p>\n<p>It enriches those who receive it without making poorer those who give it.<\/p>\n<p>A smile takes only a moment, but the memory of it can last forever.<\/p>\n<p>No one is so rich, or so mighty, that they can get a long without a smile.<\/p>\n<p>And no one is so poor that they cannot be made richer by a smile.<\/p>\n<p>A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business and is the<\/p>\n<p>counter sign of friendship.<\/p>\n<p>A smile brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the<\/p>\n<p>sad and is nature\u2019s best cure for trouble<\/p>\n<p>Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen for it is of no value to anyone until it is given away.<\/p>\n<p>Some people are too tired to give a smile so give them one of yours as no one needs a smile so much as he who has no more of his own to give.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Bertram in 1968<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A smile costs nothing, but gives a lot. It enriches those who receive it without making poorer those who give it. A smile takes only a moment, but the memory of it can last forever. No one is so rich, or so mighty, that they can get a long without a smile. And no one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61306\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Smile&#8221;<\/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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61307,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61306\/revisions\/61307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}