{"id":667,"date":"2020-11-26T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2020-11-26T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:16:32","slug":"starfish-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/starfish-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfish Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>A woman was walking along a deserted beach at sunset. As she walked, she noticed a young girl in the distance. Every few moments she would reach down into the sand and then throw something into the water as far as she could.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As the woman approached the girl, she could see that she was picking up starfish that had washed up on the beach. One at a time she was returning them to the water. Kindly, the woman asked the girl what she was doing.\u00a0She replied matter-of-factly, &#8220;I&#8217;m throwing starfish back into the ocean before they die.&#8221; The woman looked along the coast and gestured, \u00a0&#8220;But there are thousands of starfish on this beach, and there are hundreds of beaches along the coast. You can&#8217;t possibly make a difference.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The girl smiled, reached down and picked up another starfish.\u00a0As she threw it back into the sea, she replied, &#8220;I made a difference to that one.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aycp.ca\/starfish-story\">https:\/\/www.aycp.ca\/starfish-story<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cTo the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.\u201d <\/p><cite>\u2014 Dr. Seuss<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2>To whom do you (want to) make a difference?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman was walking along a deserted beach at sunset. As she walked, she noticed a young girl in the distance. Every few moments &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindwave.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}