{"id":187,"date":"2008-09-27T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2008-09-27T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T20:09:00","slug":"listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=187","title":{"rendered":"Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:verdana;\">I have spent much of the day listening.  I have visited with five older people who live in a retirement community near me.  Each of my older friends lives alone.  They get lonely.  Sometimes, I just go visit, and listen.  I learn a lot, and enjoy providing a way for my friends to share their stories, background, history, and occasional advice or insights.<\/p>\n<p>I might lift a hammer, wrench, screwdriver, or a can of WD-40 and fix something while I&#8217;m there.  That&#8217;s why I tell them I&#8217;m coming.  But the real reason I am there is to give them someone to talk to, in person.  It makes a world of difference &#8212; to them and to me.  Meanwhile, that squeaky door gets fixed, or the light bulbs get replaced, and that ding-danged leaky faucet stops leaking.<\/p>\n<p>Just a way to spend some time with some important people in my life.  And a great thing to do on a rainy day.  Kick off my boots at the door, give a warm smile, a big hug, share a cookie, fix something, and just listen.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  show those you love that you love them, each and every day.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have spent much of the day listening. I have visited with five older people who live in a retirement community near me. Each of my older friends lives alone. They get lonely. Sometimes, I just go visit, and listen. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=187\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}