{"id":6941,"date":"2016-06-11T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6941"},"modified":"2016-06-12T06:43:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T12:43:20","slug":"an-homage-to-cecil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6941","title":{"rendered":"An Homage to “Cecil”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago – New Orleans – Madrid – Seville – Barcelona – Madison – Denver – Hong Kong – Shanghai<\/p>\n

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The opportunity to “love one’s neighbor” [1] pops up constantly.<\/p>\n

Recently, while flying west, a very tall young man, with rather elaborate hair sat in the exit row window seat, just a short distance from my small abode. <\/p>\n

We began chatting and I learned that he – I’ll call him “Cecil” – has been playing basketball abroad for several years. This trip – flying west – would end up in Hong Kong, his next sports port of call. <\/p>\n

I found the conversation fascinating. Cecil had a wonderful opportunity to see the world via a sport he loved. I asked how he compared the States to his various temporary homes? <\/p>\n

“Well, the biggest difference I’ve seen is that people in Europe always greet strangers. I can’t count the times that someone has said “buenos dias<\/em>” to me, a complete stranger. That does not happen in the USA.”<\/p>\n

Subsequently, I have tried – tried to greet everyone. <\/p>\n

Oh, he was reading this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[1] The greatest commandment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Let the peace of Christ rule your hearts”. The My Verse app<\/a> delivers a daily verse to your Watch, iPhone or iPad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago – New Orleans – Madrid – Seville – Barcelona – Madison – Denver – Hong Kong – Shanghai The opportunity to “love one’s neighbor” [1] pops up constantly. Recently, while flying west, a very tall young man, with rather elaborate hair sat in the exit row window seat, just a short distance from my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6943,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}