{"id":69191,"date":"2025-07-25T02:12:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69191"},"modified":"2025-07-25T02:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:12:37","slug":"instead-of-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69191","title":{"rendered":"Instead of making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-55.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-55.png 512w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-55-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When my son Kian\u2019s teacher said he wasn\u2019t eating lunch, I was worried. I packed more food and called the school\u2014but nothing changed. Then Kian finally admitted: he was giving his lunch to Omar, a quiet boy in his class who never brought food. Kian, just nine, didn\u2019t tell me because he thought I\u2019d be mad. I wasn\u2019t\u2014I was heartbroken and proud. I reached out to Omar\u2019s sister, Layla, a 21-year-old raising him alone after their parents died. Working two jobs and studying, she was struggling. I offered to send extra lunches labeled as \u201cKian\u2019s backup.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For weeks, Omar smiled more. The boys became close. Then one day, Omar vanished. Evicted. Layla\u2019s number was disconnected. I called schools, shelters\u2014nothing. A week later, she texted: they were okay but had to leave suddenly. Then silence. Months passed. One day at the park, we saw them again\u2014stable housing, a new school, full-time job. Layla said Omar cried the first time he opened the lunch\u2014it made him feel seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Layla runs a nonprofit, Second Sandwich, providing lunches for kids in need. Kian helps decorate the bags. This all started with a child noticing another. A simple act of kindness. Sometimes, one sandwich can change everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=69145\">also read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my son Kian\u2019s teacher said he wasn\u2019t eating lunch, I was worried. I packed more food and called the school\u2014but nothing changed. Then Kian finally admitted:&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69192,"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\/69191"}],"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=69191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69193,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69191\/revisions\/69193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}