{"id":66695,"date":"2025-07-01T21:25:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=66695"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:26:06","slug":"66695","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=66695","title":{"rendered":"12 Stories of Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66696\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/514059350_741873555004335_4516768357641661102_n-1-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/514059350_741873555004335_4516768357641661102_n-1-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/514059350_741873555004335_4516768357641661102_n-1-853x1024.jpg 853w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/514059350_741873555004335_4516768357641661102_n-1-768x922.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/514059350_741873555004335_4516768357641661102_n-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>stranger. This collection captures real-life encounters that span from heartwarming and magical to bizarre, uncomfortable, or even a bit eerie. These short moments\u2014whether filled with humor, emotion, or tension\u2014often felt like scenes from a film.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re a reminder that even fleeting interactions with people we\u2019ve never met can leave a lasting impression and turn the day into something truly memorable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"M887470ScriptRootC1482028\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was 8 months pregnant, on a tram. A woman stepped in holding a baby and a large bag. She looked drained. No one moved, so I gave her my seat. She gave me a strange glance.<\/p>\n<p>When she got off, she slipped something wet into my bag. I felt sick as I pulled it out\u2014this woman had given me a pacifier, cracked and chewed, with a note folded around it. The note read: \u201cDon\u2019t be a hero. No one claps for mothers falling apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=66663\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stranger. This collection captures real-life encounters that span from heartwarming and magical to bizarre, uncomfortable, or even a bit eerie. These short moments\u2014whether filled with humor, emotion,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66698,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695\/revisions\/66698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}