{"id":5564,"date":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/my-brother-is-helping-me\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:10:55","slug":"my-brother-is-helping-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/my-brother-is-helping-me\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brother Is Helping Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1985 the Los Angeles Times ran a human-interest story.  It happened a few days after the disastrous earthquake in Mexico City.  A little Japanese-American boy was going door-to-door in Los Angeles selling picture postcards for twenty-five cents each.  He was giving the profits for earthquake relief.<\/p>\n<p>One man bought some postcards from the little boy &#8230; and then he asked the boy how much he hoped to raise.  The little boy answered quickly, &#8220;One million dollars!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man smiled and said, &#8220;Do you mean to tell me that you are trying to raise a million dollars to help the earthquake victims all by yourself?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no, sir,&#8221; replied the boy, &#8220;my little brother is helping me!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1985 the Los Angeles Times ran a human-interest story. It happened a few days after the disastrous earthquake in Mexico City. A little Japanese-American boy was going door-to-door in Los Angeles selling picture postcards for twenty-five cents each. He was giving the profits for earthquake relief. One man bought some postcards from the little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[377,27,2914,2915,278,2916,1021],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}