{"id":102,"date":"2013-06-12T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/06\/12\/good-intentions-come-out-wrong-perhaps"},"modified":"2013-06-12T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T16:11:00","slug":"good-intentions-come-out-wrong-perhaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"Good intentions come out wrong &#8230; perhaps?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I was sitting this morning in the terminal at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston when I witnessed and overheard the following:<\/p>\n<p>An airport employee pushed a woman to the gate in a wheelchair. The woman in the chair appeared to be\u00a0of Muslim faith, as she was wearing a scarf that covered her hair. The airport employee parked the woman at the end of a row of seats and then bid her goodbye by saying the following: &#8220;God bless you, even though you&#8217;re a Muslim. God bless you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I looked up &#8230; and laughed out loud. I don&#8217;t believe the airport employee heard me, as she just kept on walking away. But a fellow across the way did. We exchanged smiles and head shakes. I asked him, &#8220;Did I just hear what I thought I heard?&#8221; He nodded yes.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I witnessed a well-intended remark jump seriously off the rails.<\/p>\n<p>Nice try, Mme. Airport Employee &#8230; but you missed the mark.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting this morning in the terminal at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston when I witnessed and overheard the following: An airport employee pushed a woman to the gate in a wheelchair. The woman in the chair appeared to be\u00a0of Muslim faith, as she was wearing a scarf that covered her hair. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good intentions come out wrong &#8230; perhaps?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}