{"id":13024,"date":"2020-08-19T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=13024"},"modified":"2020-08-19T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T07:09:51","slug":"every-person-has-a-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/every-person-has-a-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Person Has A Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how differently we see people when we know more about their story and what they&#8217;ve been through. Note the following example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A young man in his twenties was seeing out from the train\u2019s window shouted\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFather, look at the trees! They are going behind!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young man\u2019s father smiled at the man and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the young man\u2019s childish comment with pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, the young man exclaimed again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFather, look at the clouds! They are all running with us!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The couple couldn\u2019t resist and said to the old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t you take your son to a good doctor?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The old man smiled and said<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe did and we are just coming from the hospital. My son was blind from birth and he just got his vision today.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Every\u00a0\u00a0person in the world has a story. Don\u2019t judge people before you truly know them. The truth might surprise you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love that little story.  I love how it reminds us to hold off judgment until we take the time to know someone&#8217;s story.  We all have one&#8230;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson (author of the book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Awesome-Looks-Like-Business\/dp\/1946633763\">What Awesome Looks Like: How To Excel in Business &amp; Life<\/a>\u201d ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazing how differently we see people when we know more about their story and what they&#8217;ve been through. Note the following example: A young man in his twenties was seeing out from the train\u2019s window shouted\u2026 \u201cFather, look at the trees! They are going behind!\u201d The young man\u2019s father smiled at the man and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,7003,15028,24100,24098,17340,24105,979,24099,24097,24102,5921,24101,24103,24104],"class_list":["post-13024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-be-kind","tag-dont-assume","tag-everyone-has-a-backstory","tag-get-to-know-the-other-person","tag-give-people-the-benefit-of-the-doubt","tag-hear-their-story","tag-judging","tag-know-their-story","tag-passing-judgment","tag-rush-to-judgment","tag-share-your-story","tag-take-time-to-know-people-before-you-judge-them","tag-there-is-often-more-to-the-story-than-you-know","tag-we-all-have-a-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13047,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13024\/revisions\/13047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}