{"id":21799,"date":"2018-01-15T07:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T07:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=21799"},"modified":"2018-01-15T07:18:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T07:18:47","slug":"ive-always-maintained-that-kindness-will-see-us-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=21799","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve always maintained that kindness will see us through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always maintained that kindness will see us through&#8230;in relationships, in sticky situations, in life.<br \/>\nBut when kindness comes unannounced and from strangers it can bring you down to your knees in prayer of gratitude.<br \/>\nI came away from the Saree Speak meet today marveling once again at how simply, quickly, organically, yet deeply, we connect with each other through the medium of the saree.<br \/>\nDiverse women from diverse backgrounds and yet united in our stories.<br \/>\nThank you to each one of you for your generosity of spirit. You did not make me feel like a stranger, I felt like I had come into a family gathering.<br \/>\nKasturi Reddy, Vini Tandon Keni, Shubhra, Srimoyee, I walked in to the meet today only knowing Dhruti Bal, and I walked away having made so many new friends.<br \/>\nThank you.<br \/>\nI wore one of my favourite Kanjeevarams to the temple. On it\u2019s aanchal it has elephants &amp; deer and the forest, depicted in gold.<br \/>\nI wish every member in the group the strength of an elephant&#8230;we women know what it is to be strong, we are Gaj Gaminis. I wish you abundance of love and laughter depicted in the forest in my pallu, and the grace of a deer.<br \/>\nFor what is life worth if it is not lived gracefully ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always maintained that kindness will see us through&#8230;in relationships, in sticky situations, in life. But when kindness comes unannounced and from strangers it can bring you down to your knees in prayer of gratitude. I came away from the Saree Speak meet today marveling once again at how simply, quickly, organically, yet deeply, we&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/?p=21799\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[168],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21807,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions\/21807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100sareepact.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}