{"id":266,"date":"2010-04-08T16:58:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/04\/kindness-empathy-love-selflessness-peace-joyis-there-an-app-for-that.html"},"modified":"2010-04-08T16:58:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:58:06","slug":"kindness-empathy-love-selflessness-peace-joyis-there-an-app-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flirtingwithfaith\/2010\/04\/kindness-empathy-love-selflessness-peace-joyis-there-an-app-for-that.html","title":{"rendered":"Kindness, Empathy, Love, Selflessness, Peace, Joy&#8230;Is There an App for That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you are a teacher, a preacher, a marketer, a businessperson or anyone else interested in connecting with people who will be coming of age in the next 10-20 years you might want to watch this 2 1\/2 year old girl as she is handed an iPad for the first time. <a href=\"http:\/\/industry.bnet.com\/technology\/10006827\/what-my-25-year-olds-first-encounter-with-an-ipad-can-teach-the-tech-industry\/\">Her father admits in a blog post <\/a>that she is used to playing on his iPhone&#8230;as if that would make what is on this video any less amazing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; \">It is indeed a new world&#8230;yet there is nothing new under the sun. 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