{"id":379655,"date":"2012-09-10T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/six-cents\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T00:48:00","slug":"six-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/10\/six-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"float: left; text-align: left;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lady-who-gave-six-cents.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"96\" src=\"https:\/\/annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lady-who-gave-six-cents.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">This woman gave me money,<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">even when I didn&#8217;t need it<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u201cDo you have six cents?\u201d the cashier asked me after she rang up my $4.06 purchase.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u201cNo, ma\u2019am, I\u2019m sorry. I only have this ten.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u201cI have six cents,\u201d the woman behind me said, and then fished coins from her change purse.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">I t<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">hanked her, this woman who gave me money, even when I didn\u2019t need it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">And when I ran into my husband as I left the line, I asked him for change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">As the woman left the store, I handed her a quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u201cBut now you\u2019ve gone and given me a profit,\u201d she lamented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u201cIt\u2019s okay,\u201d I replied, \u201cyou\u2019ve earned it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">Later, I thought what I should have said, \u201cJust paying it forward. Maybe the next person you run into will need nineteen cents.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">Soon&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This woman gave me money,even when I didn&#8217;t need it \u201cDo you have six cents?\u201d the cashier asked me after she rang up my $4.06 purchase. \u201cNo, ma\u2019am, I\u2019m sorry. I only have this ten.\u201d \ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\u201cI have six cents,\u201d the woman behind me said, and then fished coins from her change purse.I thanked her, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[316,317,318,161,233,20,319,320,321],"class_list":["post-379655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-happyhappens","tag-finding-happiness-in-your-day","tag-generosity","tag-happiness","tag-happy-happens","tag-kindness","tag-pay-it-forward","tag-random-happiness","tag-six-cents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Lady-who-gave-six-cents.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.annahelizabeth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}