{"id":381,"date":"2020-07-13T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=381"},"modified":"2020-07-16T19:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T19:19:43","slug":"the-doers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/07\/13\/the-doers\/","title":{"rendered":"The doers!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/trash-men-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-459\" width=\"312\" height=\"296\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong><em>Doncha Love<\/em><\/strong> by Barbara Helvey Hughes, April 11, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(As we walked briskly down the street chatting away, I remembered it was trash day and heard the truck before I saw it. This was inspired by that moment\ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><br>Doncha Love the ones who strive to keep us safe<br>when we are vulnerable?<br>Doncha Love the givers? The doctors, nurses,<br>health care professionals. The EMTs, the body removers<br>the Death Workers\u2026..<br>Doncha Love the grocery clerks,<br>the farmers, the field hands,<br>the grocery re-stockers,<br>the postal workers\u2026.<br>Doncha LOVE the trash removers,<br>the lawn workers. The ones who clean up.<br>Doncha Love the truck drivers,<br>the caring neighbors,<br>the ones who donate for those who have no home<br>no food, no medical help.<br>Doncha Love the ones who do not complain?<br>Doncha LOVE the ones who LIFT us,<br>who HELP us, who INSPIRE us,<br>who continue to find the best of who we all are,<br>who support without going negative,<br>who make us laugh,<br>who help us remember we are all in this TOGETHER,<br>who put people before money or power\u2026.<br>Who HELP us BE our very best.<br>Because, you know, it is ALWAYS<br>easier to take that low road.<br>We\u2019ve all done it.<br>It is HARD to stay positive and have integrity,<br>compassion, LOVE.<br><br>It is EASY to complain and point fingers: we ALL do it.<br>It is HARD to understand the fear of another<br>and, rather than accelerate that fear and feed it,<br>attempt to squash it by being understanding and kind.<br>In ALL times, but especially during THIS time<br>KINDNESS MATTERS.<br>&nbsp;<br>Doncha LOVE\u2026\u2026PLEASE continue this list!!!<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ones who keep working in order that we have food, dispose of trash, clean our communities, help us, help us, help us&#8230;THANK YOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}