{"id":27337,"date":"2025-12-18T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27337"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:44:37","slug":"episode-1471-empathy-demonstrated-by-john-morton-years-ago-at-high-park-curling-club-toroto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27337","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 1,471; EMPATHY \u2014 DEMONSTRATED BY JOHN MORTON YEARS AGO at high park curling club., TOROTO."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">alan skeoch dec\/ 18, 2025<br \/>\nSome curling games are soon forgotten\u2026others are hard to forget.  This game happened years ago.   John Morton threw an 8 ender.  That means that my team had a terrible game. John Morton\u2019s eight ender made me feel bad\u2026embarrassing\u2026humiliating.<br \/>\n\u201cWe got an 8 ender!!!\u201c   He began to yell.  But he looked over at me.  I was feeling lower than a snake in a rut.   John cut off his jubilation\u2026threw his arm around my shoulder and said:<br \/>\n\u201cCome on Al, I\u2019ll buy you a beer.\u201d<br \/>\nThat\u2019s empathy in action.<br \/>\nalan skeoch<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alan skeoch dec\/ 18, 2025 Some curling games are soon forgotten\u2026others are hard to forget. This game happened years ago. John Morton threw an 8 ender. That means that my team had a terrible game. John Morton\u2019s eight ender made me feel bad\u2026embarrassing\u2026humiliating. \u201cWe got an 8 ender!!!\u201c He began to yell. But he looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}