{"id":10789,"date":"2012-11-27T05:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T05:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancullen.net\/stories\/?p=13"},"modified":"2012-11-27T05:32:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T05:32:53","slug":"pickup-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/2012\/11\/27\/pickup-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One night, at 11:30 PM, an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm.  Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride.  Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car.  A young white man stopped to help.  This was generally unheard of in those conflict-filled 1960s.  The man took her to safety, helped her get assistance and put her into a taxi cab. She seemed to be in a big hurry! She wrote down his address, thanked him and drove away.  Seven days went by and a knock came on the man&#8217;s door. To his surprise, a giant console color TV was delivered to his home. A special note was attached.  It read:  &#8222;Thank you so much for assisting me on the highway the other night. The rain drenched not only my clothes but my spirits.  Then you came along.  Because of you, I was able to make it to my dying husband&#8217;s bedside just before he passed away.  God bless you for helping me and unselfishly serving others.&#8220;  Sincerely,  Mrs. Nat King Cole<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One night, at 11:30 PM, an older African American woman was standing on the side of an Alabama highway trying to endure a lashing rain storm. Her car had broken down and she desperately needed a ride. Soaking wet, she decided to flag down the next car. A young white man stopped to help. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teachingstories.briancullen.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}