{"id":125,"date":"2008-10-25T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T17:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2016-09-20T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T15:51:45","slug":"i-paid-it-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/i-paid-it-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"I paid it forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my story called <a title=\"Pay $5 foward\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/?p=106\" target=\"_self\">Pay $5 forward<\/a>, you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;ve been carrying a crumpled $5 bill around in my coat pocket for a while.  I&#8217;ve been waiting for just the right opportunity to pay it forward since the day it was given to me by a dear little Native woman on the train.  Well, you&#8217;ll be glad to know it went out yesterday.  I was waiting on the street corner downtown at lunch time, when another little Native woman walked through crowds of people, directly to me in a bee-line, as if she&#8217;d spotted me from a mile away.  I watched her approach and somehow I knew.  Sure enough, she asked if I had some change for a cup of coffee.  Without hesitation I said, &#8220;I sure do,&#8221; and dug the bill out of my pocket and placed it in her hand.  Her eyes glowed with gratitude and last I saw her, she was heading to the nearby McDonalds for some lunch.  It warmed my heart.<\/p>\n<p>My dad said his auntie, also a little half-Native woman, would have said my experience on the train was a visit from the Elders.  He said perhaps it was a visit from Aunt Alice, who always carried wads of $5 bills around with her (she liked to bet on the horses).  He said maybe she was passing along her gift of second sight to me.  Thank you, Aunt Alice.  I am truly grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read my story called Pay $5 forward, you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;ve been carrying a crumpled $5 bill around in my coat pocket for a while. I&#8217;ve been waiting for just the right opportunity to pay it forward since the day it was given to me by a dear &hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/i-paid-it-forward\/\"><span class=\"meta-nav\">&#91;read&#93;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dawnann.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}