{"id":46,"date":"2007-02-16T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-02-16T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T18:37:29","slug":"the-love-revolution-starts-with-free-hugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/the-love-revolution-starts-with-free-hugs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Revolution starts with free hugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the University of Illinois there was a group that called themselves Positive Event Chain who, among other things, got together on the quad and gave away free hugs.  I could never understand the people who would walk by the group without taking advantage of the offer.  Who passes on a hug?<br \/>\nIn the same vein I just heard of this group in Paris called calins gratuits (literally free hugs) who perform the same service here in the City of Love.  According to their &#8220;website&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calins-gratuits.com\/\">http:\/\/www.calins-gratuits.com\/<\/a> they are part of a global revolution to &#8216;break the barriers of individualism and inhibition surrounding a simple friendly action.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the University of Illinois there was a group that called themselves Positive Event Chain who, among other things, got together on the quad and gave away free hugs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[176,224,308],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-hugs","tag-love","tag-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}