{"id":1565,"date":"2006-06-19T10:10:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T17:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/19\/what-blogs-are-good-for\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:43:32","slug":"what-blogs-are-good-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/06\/19\/what-blogs-are-good-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What Blogs Are Good For"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the policemen travelled with us. The patient was, quite understandably, frightened by his predicament and asked for someone to hold his hand. As I was clutching the dressings to his face I didn’t have a spare hand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yet the policeman, also covered with the patient\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blood, didn’t hesitate to hold the frightened patient’s hand. <\/p>\n

When we got to the hospital the patient asked if we were all white. I have no idea what was going through his head to ask that question, perhaps he had been brainwashed to believe that all us white people in uniform don’t give a damn about young black men. To be honest I hadn’t given it a thought and I doubt that the policeman had either, all we saw was someone who needed our help.<\/p>\n

It’s what drives me nuts about the media, and to a certain extent members of the public and ‘community leaders’. Everyone is so quick to jump onto the bandwagon of criticising the police over, for example, a raid where they believed they had good information about a chemical bomb \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yet you never seem to hear about the numerous small acts of kindness that they perform daily.<\/p>\n

I guess that this is what blogs are good for.<\/p>\n

–Tom Reynolds, Random Acts of Reality<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Thanks to Euan<\/a> for pointing the way to his blog]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the policemen travelled with us. The patient was, quite understandably, frightened by his predicament and asked for someone to hold his hand. As I was clutching the dressings to his face I didn’t have a spare hand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c yet the policeman, also covered with the patient\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blood, didn’t hesitate to hold the frightened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}