{"id":698,"date":"2008-05-10T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T23:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2008-07-31T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:15:02","slug":"a-good-deed-for-a-day-with-a-lasting-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/a-good-deed-for-a-day-with-a-lasting-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Deed For A Day With A Lasting Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You all may remember my post awhile ago in regards to me trying to help a stranger to get his website back in my post about <a href=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/helping-other-peoples-customers\/\">helping other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s customers<\/a>. I was happy to hear that the site was fully recovered.  The company that was hosting it had all kinds of primitive excuses it seemed that created the ordeal.  The person wrote me an e-mail that started with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hello Alan,<\/p>\n<p>I would like to thank you for any time and efforts that you made on my behalf of my website and <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cname of hosting company-<\/em>. It was very nice of you and I hope that one day I or some other stranger grants you the same respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was very grateful and went on to express how I should contact him if I ever require any help especially if it dealt with something that was in his local area that I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t normally have a lot of contacts in.<\/p>\n<p>With all the twists and turns that life throws at you, I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised if I somehow bumped into this gentleman in the future and needed his help too.  Of course not everyone will necessarily return the favor, but you will be surprised on how many opportunities and genuine contacts you can create with like minded people this way.  <\/p>\n<p>Even for myself, it can be very delightful to see everyone that you have helped in the past come out of nowhere when you are the one in need all of a sudden. Besides, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great knowing that you helped to make a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You all may remember my post awhile ago in regards to me trying to help a stranger to get his website back in my post about helping other people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s customers. I was happy to hear that the site was fully recovered. The company that was hosting it had all kinds of primitive excuses it seemed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[5953,871,874,872,873],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business","tag-generosity","tag-identity","tag-making-a-difference","tag-new-contacts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_0768-1300x866.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-bg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}