{"id":5663,"date":"2020-04-01T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T20:31:00","slug":"thank-you-grocers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/hope\/thank-you-grocers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Grocers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6208.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6208.jpg\" alt=\"Thank you, Grocers!\" width=\"200\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6208.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6208-300x348.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6208-250x290.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>As I walked in a nearby park today, I came across a series of chalked messages encouraging us all to smile and say hello. Some messages expressed gratitude to health care workers, truckers, and grocers. One said, if we had masks on, to smile with our eyes. It absolutely brightened my afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6128-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6128-1-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6128-1-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6128-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6128-1-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_6128-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>We\u2019re into Week 3 of social distancing, aka distant socializing, and though numbers of cases keep climbing, we\u2019re getting early data about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/30\/health\/coronavirus-restrictions-fevers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fevers through Kinsa thermometers<\/a> that shows our efforts are making a difference. April is going to be very difficult \u2014 there\u2019s no way around that \u2014 and I suspect we\u2019ve left the old normal behind forever, but we can prepare as best we can, and we can keep reaching out to the ones we love.<\/p>\n<p>Let us hope, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidlevithan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">David Levithan<\/a> suggested in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loversdiction\/status\/1245169495062306817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent tweet<\/a>, that our worst times bring out our best.<\/p>\n<p>Also, thank you, Grocers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I walked in a nearby park today, I came across a series of chalked messages encouraging us all to smile and say hello. Some messages expressed gratitude to health care workers, truckers, and grocers. One said, if we had masks on, to smile with our eyes. It absolutely brightened my afternoon. We\u2019re into Week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[861],"tags":[1032,871],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hope","tag-gratitude","tag-hope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}