{"id":4177,"date":"2014-10-03T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=4177"},"modified":"2014-10-03T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:50:43","slug":"who-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/who-writes\/","title":{"rendered":"Who writes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer, is very, very few. In our time of instant gratification, instant messages, poor grammar, shortcuts to shortcuts, and attention spans measured in milliseconds very few take the time to actually write.<\/p>\n

That my favorite youngest daughter, Julia, is one of those who do somewhat redeems my flagging faith in humanity. How has it come to be that we “don’t have the time” to do the things that matter, yet we have the time to focus our eyes downward onto a little device and completely believe the little alerts it constantly bombards us with are a measure of our worth?<\/p>\n

Ting! {A text message!\u00a0 Someone cares about me!}<\/p>\n

Here is a heads-up. If they really cared they would visit you.\u00a0 Failing visiting, they would call and talk to you.\u00a0 Failing talking, they would write you.\u00a0 Write, as in actually put pen to paper. Failing pen to paper, they would put fingers to keyboard and email you.\u00a0 There is one thing all these things that people who really care about you have in common. Every one of them results in a conversation. A conversation… You know, where a couple of people actually talk to each other?<\/p>\n

The following is not<\/strong> a conversation.<\/p>\n

how r u
\ngud u
\ncool thx
\ngtg bi<\/p>\n

Sure, texting can be used as a way to let someone know you might<\/em> be thinking about them. Yes, texting can reinforce a relationship, provided it adds another dimension to an existing one. However, if texting is the basis\u00a0 of your relationship, well you don’t have a relationship.<\/p>\n

This is a draft copy of a Letter Julia spent hours writing to her Grandma, I deftly snagged it before it ended up in the waste paper bin. Notice her name at the bottom? She spent hours more teaching herself how to write cursive in order to make her signature look nicer.\u00a0 {Cursive is a skill our schools now deem of insufficient importance to teach.}<\/p>\n

Julia cares about her Gran, and here is the evidence.<\/p>\n

\"Who<\/a>The next time you think about texting a cryptic message to someone you really care about, think about what your partial line message says about your caring.\u00a0 Think about this post. Then key in their number and call them. Or write them, even if they never know you do, you know you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer, is very, very few. In our time of instant gratification, instant messages, poor grammar, shortcuts to shortcuts, and attention spans measured in milliseconds very few take the time to actually write. That my favorite youngest daughter, Julia, is one of those who do somewhat redeems my flagging faith in humanity. How has it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}