{"id":202533,"date":"2026-06-15T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=202533"},"modified":"2026-06-15T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:22:29","slug":"the-kindness-of-strangers-letter-to-the-editor-by-diane-magid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=202533","title":{"rendered":"The Kindness of Strangers ~ Letter to the Editor by Diane Magid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;Jon Roth is an ACE! He rescued me outside of Arnold \u2013 flat tire \u2013 on the side of Hwy 4, and with an ear to ear grin, drove the spare to the tire shop for air, changed TWO tires and had me back on the road before you could say Pastrami on Pumpernickel. He wouldn\u2019t take payment, said he was a plumber.  I say he is an angel. Jon Roth is an ACE!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"246\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg 320w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Diane Magid<br \/>\nColumbia, CA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;Jon Roth is an ACE! He rescued me outside of Arnold \u2013 flat tire \u2013 on the side of Hwy 4, and with an ear to ear grin, drove the spare to the tire shop for air, changed TWO tires and had me back on the road before you could say Pastrami on Pumpernickel. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20,1,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arnold","category-featured","category-news","category-opinion","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Soapbox7.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202534,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202533\/revisions\/202534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}