{"id":15145,"date":"2014-08-05T16:28:06","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=15145"},"modified":"2014-08-05T16:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:28:06","slug":"miscellaneous-email-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/miscellaneous-email-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"MISCELLANEOUS: EMAIL REACTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>EMAIL REACTIONS<\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On a recent morning, I noticed that, when I went to my emails and saw ones from my friends Lila and Mary, I felt instantly happy. I was looking forward to seeing what they had to say, even if it was just &#8220;hi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15147\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-03-at-10.24.04-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15147\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15147\" alt=\"Seeing email like this group makes my day!\" src=\"http:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-03-at-10.24.04-PM-e1407130072889-300x128.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-03-at-10.24.04-PM-e1407130072889-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-03-at-10.24.04-PM-e1407130072889.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seeing email like this group makes my day!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then it hit me that, conversely, whenever I turn on my computer (or iPad or iPhone or laptop,) and see emails from a few people in particular, I get instantly sick, and start shaking. Even before I read them!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no profound message here. The revelation of my different reactions made me appreciate, even more than I already do, the missives from people like Gina, Alex, Simone, Sheila, Betsy, Stephanie, Dave, Paul, and Mimi, and a few special others. (I don&#8217;t want to name them <em>all<\/em> because I&#8217;m afraid that, just like someone giving an award acceptance speech, I&#8217;ll wind-up leaving just <em>one<\/em> important person out.) \u00a0And the occasional one from Ronnie Hazel, Jr. makes me downright giddy!!!<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m just sharing this thought with my readers, in the hopes that they realize how much certain emails mean to them, too. Putting a smile on someone&#8217;s face, even briefly, is a powerful thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMAIL REACTIONS &nbsp; On a recent morning, I noticed that, when I went to my emails and saw ones from my friends Lila and Mary, I felt instantly happy. I was looking forward to seeing what they had to say, even if it was just &#8220;hi.&#8221; And then it hit me that, conversely, whenever I<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/miscellaneous-email-reactions\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15175,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15145\/revisions\/15175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}