{"id":23,"date":"2008-04-26T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T13:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-04-26T21:12:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-26T13:12:16","slug":"the-human-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/04\/26\/the-human-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"The human touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image540\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/blog-parking.jpg\" alt=\"blog-parking.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Something warmed my heart recently.<\/p>\n<p>I was halfway tearing a parking coupon at the car park of ICA (Immigration and Checkpoint Authority) when I heard some knocking on the glass window of the passenger\u2019s seat. I looked up and saw a Malay family man hurriedly took out 2 parking coupons and wanted to give me the one which still have a good 30 minutes\u2019 worth of time left. I was touched by his little gesture of sharing. I can\u2019t remember the last time a stranger showed me kindness. He definitely lifted my spirits on a mundane Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, his face shape looked a bit like the run-away terrorist here. But what difference is his heart towards fellow human beings! How often do we go by the appearance of man while God looks at the heart.<\/p>\n<p>Bless this man, Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something warmed my heart recently. I was halfway tearing a parking coupon at the car park of ICA (Immigration and Checkpoint Authority) when I heard some knocking on the glass window of the passenger\u2019s seat. I looked up and saw<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/04\/26\/the-human-touch\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  The human touch<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[644],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","wpcat-644-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}