{"id":2483,"date":"2015-07-15T16:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2015-07-15T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:11:43","slug":"try-to-be-larger-than-you-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;&#8221;Try to be larger than you are&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150713_095325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2484\" alt=\"20150713_095325\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150713_095325-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150713_095325-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150713_095325-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/20150713_095325.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don\u2019t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid\u2019s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are\u2014 particularly when it\u2019s difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it\u2019s done to (for) me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (\u201cI\u2019m not a big one for paying compliments\u2026\u201d), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself.<\/h4>\n<div>\n<div>\u2014<\/div>\n<div>Jonathan Carroll<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don\u2019t feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid\u2019s runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are\u2014 particularly when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[756,783,782,785,784],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2485,"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eldj.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}