{"id":1248,"date":"2012-04-02T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T10:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:59:49","slug":"who-do-you-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Champion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Heroes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2079\" alt=\"Heroes\" src=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Heroes-300x156.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Heroes-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Heroes.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We all need one! They come in different shapes, sizes, and colors, and can be real or imaginary. They&#8217;re\u00a0called HEROES, and everybody wants to be somebody&#8217;s HERO. The ideal is parent-child, husband-wife,\u00a0significant life partners, siblings, but if those options don&#8217;t exist, don&#8217;t give up too soon!<\/p>\n<p>Your champion could come in the form of a co-worker, colleague or neighbor that needs a shoulder to\u00a0cry on, a hug to know you care, or a sympathetic ear for when the world seems dark, grey, hopeless and\u00a0overwhelming. We never truly know the impact we can have on the lives of others by just expressing a\u00a0little care, understanding, compassion, sympathy, empathy or even silence. They say silence is a great\u00a0indicator of truth, as it does indeed tell us many things and allows us to draw conclusions that may or may\u00a0not suit our purpose.<\/p>\n<p>In a world of too much stress, too little time, too few resources, and these days, too little hope, be the\u00a0beacon that someone needs, their light at the end of the tunnel. While an act of kindness might take a few\u00a0minutes, making that call, sending that e-mail or giving that hug could make a world of difference to a lost,\u00a0troubled soul trying to right their path. And how wonderful to know your seemingly insignificant gesture\u00a0can last a lifetime! Perhaps you can recall a story of your own, a time in your life when someone picked\u00a0up your overwhelming professional or personal baggage and carried it a few blocks for you, or maybe you\u00a0did the good deed for someone else.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a champion, if you long to be someone&#8217;s HERO, I&#8217;m asking you to dust off and wear that\u00a0cape today. Someone is out there, needing, wanting, longing and hoping for you to brighten their day, to\u00a0put a little hope and sunshine into their tomorrow. Go ahead, pick your favorite superhero and pretend\u00a0for just one day you can leap the tallest building in a single bound, run faster than a locomotive, or jump\u00a0higher than the greatest athlete! Someone is waiting for your autograph!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"About Bob Paff\" href=\"http:\/\/bobpaff.com\/about-bob-paff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Paff<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your champion could come in the form of a co-worker, colleague or neighbor that needs a shoulder to cry on, a hug to know you care, or a sympathetic ear for when the world seems dark, grey, hopeless and overwhelming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-bobs-desk","tag-linkedin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobpaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}