{"id":8796,"date":"2014-03-08T14:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8796"},"modified":"2024-07-05T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T01:16:38","slug":"thank-you-for-making-the-world-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8796","title":{"rendered":"Thank You For Making The World A Better Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThankYouForMakingTheWorldABetterPlace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8797\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThankYouForMakingTheWorldABetterPlace-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thank You For Making The World A Better Place\" width=\"942\" height=\"942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThankYouForMakingTheWorldABetterPlace-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThankYouForMakingTheWorldABetterPlace-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThankYouForMakingTheWorldABetterPlace-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/ThankYouForMakingTheWorldABetterPlace.jpg 454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a>,<br \/>\nTears of Joy<br \/>\nThank you!<br \/>\nWhenever you help another<br \/>\nYou make the world a better place.<br \/>\nThe world does not become better by a magician&#8217;s wand,<br \/>\nAll of a sudden, as if by revolution.<br \/>\nIt is made better for one person, by another,<br \/>\nOne selfless, encouraging or inspirational act at a time.<br \/>\nFor when the individual drops of kindness<br \/>\nMerge to become a trickle<br \/>\nAnd the trickles become a rivulet<br \/>\nWhich, on merging, become a stream<br \/>\nThe streams, in their turn a raging torrent<br \/>\nThen a mighty river<br \/>\nAnd the rivers, the ocean<br \/>\nThen, and only then<br \/>\nWill the tears of joy<br \/>\nBe greater than the tears of sadness in this world.<br \/>\nby Tom Grimshaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>, Tears of Joy Thank you! Whenever you help another You make the world a better place. The world does not become better by a magician&#8217;s wand, All of a sudden, as if by revolution. It is made better for one person, by another, One selfless, encouraging or inspirational act at a time. For when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=8796\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thank You For Making The World A Better Place&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8796","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\/8796","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=8796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54600,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8796\/revisions\/54600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}