{"id":1043,"date":"2007-01-09T22:32:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T22:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2007-01-09T22:32:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T22:32:04","slug":"hero-of-the-last-week-meet-strangers-take-their-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Hero of the Last Week: Meet Strangers. Take Their Souls."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/meet-a-stranger.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"meetastranger.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/main\/images\/meetastranger.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m working hard, kids. It&#8217;s been so long since I knew what work was, then I had to be my own evil boss and I knew that I&#8217;m a shitty employee. What should have been out last week comes to  you this week instead.  Which proves that my heart&#8217;s in the right place, it just doesn&#8217;t beat on time.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s HOTW is a mixture of joy and sadness. As with mots good things that appear on this site, I found  <a href=\"http:\/\/meet-a-stranger.blogspot.com\/\">Meet A Stranger<\/a> by accident.  I didn&#8217;t write down what I was looking for but I was looking for it and didn&#8217;t find it but found this instead.  In June of 2006, for whatever reasons of her own, <a href=\"http:\/\/meet-a-stranger.blogspot.com\/\">a lady in Louisville, KY <\/a>set out to meet unknown folks in and around her town, get their stories, photograph them and share it on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the sad part of this hero. The last entry on her blog is dated December 19th of 2006.  I wonder if her life got to hectic to meet new people and log their lives.  Hopefully, she&#8217;ll start back logging her adventures and keep bringing the world a little closer, one person at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working hard, kids. It&#8217;s been so long since I knew what work was, then I had to be my own evil boss and I knew that I&#8217;m a shitty employee. What should have been out last week comes to you this week instead. Which proves that my heart&#8217;s in the right place, it just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hero-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}