{"id":441,"date":"2009-01-13T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.allegedlyinteresting.com\/2009\/01\/effervescent.html"},"modified":"2009-01-13T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T22:56:00","slug":"effervescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Effervescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a cheery bus driver this morning.<\/p>\n<p>I know. Its unbelievable, but you have to listen!<br \/>She <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">smiled<\/span> when I got on the bus. She was conversational, but not overly so. It was enough to restore my faith in bus drivers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>If any of (the 86 of) you happen to be bus drivers, please take a leaf out of the book of my driver this morning:<br \/>You can make the difference between someone starting the day right, or wrong.<br \/>Sometimes, all it can take to improve your outlook on your day is for someone to be polite and chipper in a situation that does not already require it of them. Most bus drivers range from 5-10 on the Surly-o-meter, why is this?<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what you do for a living, the interactions with the people who cross your path from day to day; whether they&#8217;re clients, customers, passengers, passers-by, buskers, farmers, shop-attendants, evangelists, telemarketers, employees, employers, subordinates or simply fellow countrymen, should <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">always<\/span> be polite and courteous.<\/p>\n<p>There really is no excuse for being rude. It&#8217;s selfish and inconsiderate.<br \/>Stop it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a cheery bus driver this morning. I know. Its unbelievable, but you have to listen!She smiled when I got on the bus. She was conversational, but not overly so. It was enough to restore my faith in bus drivers everywhere. If any of (the 86 of) you happen to be bus drivers, please &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Effervescent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}