{"id":1366,"date":"2025-05-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2025-04-30T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:40:15","slug":"acts-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/acts-of-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Acts of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I believe in being kind.\u00a0 I have a little card on the wall of my office that says \u201calways choose kindness\u201d, and I try to live that out every day.\u00a0 Does that mean I\u2019m always kind?\u00a0 No, because I am a flawed human being who makes mistakes, gets frustrated, and can unintentionally be unkind.\u00a0 But I try &#8211; every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/always-choose-kindness-poster-e1746044992479.jpg\" alt=\"always choose kindness poster\" class=\"wp-image-1368 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/always-choose-kindness-poster-e1746044992479.jpg 384w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/always-choose-kindness-poster-e1746044992479-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/always-choose-kindness-poster-e1746044992479-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Kindness is all around me, and I wanted to send a shout-out to my colleagues in our Agriculture Sciences and Culinary Programs.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They launched their new Farm-to-Table program with \u201cSeed to Supper\u201d last week.\u00a0Sadly for me, I had to miss it for health reasons.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, out of nowhere, I received a beautiful basket of fresh veggies (carrots, artichoke, onions, etc.) and a lovely vase of flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" data-id=\"1379\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/Flowers-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image of flowers in a basket\" class=\"wp-image-1379\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/Flowers-image-1.jpg 384w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/04\/Flowers-image-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" data-id=\"1381\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/05\/flowers-2-image.jpg\" alt=\"Image of purple flowers\" class=\"wp-image-1381\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/05\/flowers-2-image.jpg 384w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/05\/flowers-2-image-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aren\u2019t they kind?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always choose kindness &#8211; take it from me, it is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in being kind.\u00a0 I have a little card on the wall of my office that says \u201calways choose kindness\u201d, and I try to live that out every day.\u00a0 Does that mean I\u2019m always kind?\u00a0 No, because I am a flawed human being who makes mistakes, gets frustrated, and can unintentionally be unkind.\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/avpacad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}