{"id":649,"date":"2015-01-30T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T00:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/?p=649"},"modified":"2016-07-11T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T22:37:02","slug":"150130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2015\/01\/30\/150130\/","title":{"rendered":"150130"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/images\/2015\/150130.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>150130<br \/>\nWho needs a hug?<\/p>\n<p>Please consider this my open letter<br \/>\nEveryone of us has to do better<br \/>\nRegardless of race, age, sex, class, or creed<br \/>\nUnderstanding&#8217;s a societal need<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s easier to be apathetic<br \/>\nBut we need to be more sympathetic<br \/>\nKindness is not a good we should ration<br \/>\nEvery person deserves our compassion<br \/>\nIf you were not born with the patient gene<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t have to be nice, but don&#8217;t be mean<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t take this as overly demanding<br \/>\nBut we all need some more understanding<\/p>\n<button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to Poem<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"150130 Who needs a hug? Please consider this my open letter Everyone of us has to do better Regardless of race, age, sex, class, or creed Understanding\\'s a societal need It\\'s easier to be apathetic But we need to be more sympathetic Kindness is not a good we should ration Every person deserves our compassion If you were not born with the patient gene You don\\'t have to be nice, but don\\'t be mean Don\\'t take this as overly demanding But we all need some more understanding\", \"UK English Female\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n    \n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=stickpersonpoet\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>150130 Who needs a hug? Please consider this my open letter Everyone of us has to do better Regardless of race, age, sex, class, or creed Understanding&#8217;s a societal need It&#8217;s easier to be apathetic But we need to be more sympathetic Kindness is not a good we should ration Every person deserves our compassion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/2015\/01\/30\/150130\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">150130<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhymes","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stickpersonpoetry.com\/spp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}