{"id":18,"date":"2009-05-28T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T02:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.2soar.info\/word\/?p=18"},"modified":"2009-05-28T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T02:20:44","slug":"the-stopped-school-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2009\/05\/28\/the-stopped-school-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stopped School Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">On my way to work this morning I was stopped for a school bus.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>All the children got on but the red lights didn\u2019t go out.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The mothers were chatting with the school bus driver while we all waited to proceed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re kidding me! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">Finally, the red lights went out and we moved along.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>As I passed the bus I noticed the mothers were still chatting but what was more striking to me, what gave me pause, was the makeup of the group.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The bus driver was a Muslim woman, the two mothers who had dropped off their children were Asian and Latino.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It seemed as though their conversation came easy, it was collaborative and genuine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Calibri;\">There on a street corner the perfect world microcosm existed.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>It occurred to me that mothers all over the world, given the right street corners, could solve it all and find peace. Love that, worth the wait.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to work this morning I was stopped for a school bus.\u00a0 All the children got on but the red lights didn\u2019t go out.\u00a0 The mothers were chatting with the school bus driver while we all waited to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/2009\/05\/28\/the-stopped-school-bus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pause-points"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27hQ5-i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordinarylegacy.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}