{"id":3474,"date":"2017-01-30T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2017-01-30T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T18:25:34","slug":"perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2017\/01\/30\/perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things that are on my mind\u00a0today&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The health needs of a pastor friend and a young man in our school district<\/li>\n<li>That those in power don&#8217;t seem to see that wisdom always wants MORE input, never less<\/li>\n<li>That people believe it&#8217;s okay to destroy someone else&#8217;s career, income, or reputation simply because they disagree<\/li>\n<li>That Friday is the 100 Days of School celebration, and I haven&#8217;t even asked Meg what collection of 100 things she wants to take in<\/li>\n<li>That my kids&#8217; sense of entitlement is largely encouraged by my own lack of gratitude<\/li>\n<li>The level of over-reaction to everything right now\u00a0means no one will believe it when something actually horrible happens<\/li>\n<li>That it&#8217;s really hard to let a child earn a new something when I really could just buy it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things that help me remember that we&#8217;ll make it&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Among all of the discourse of the weekend I had a great, hard interaction with a friend from college whom I haven&#8217;t &#8220;debated&#8221; with for a long time<\/li>\n<li>My kids enjoyed playing with each other on their 2-hour delay this morning<\/li>\n<li>My bible study ladies actually enjoy coming together for bible study (which he had to postpone because of said 2-hour delay)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of people are engaging with each other and with their communities&#8230;even if we need to work on &#8220;how&#8221; we do it<\/li>\n<li>That Jesus is our final hope, no matter what my day, my world, my health, my friends, my president, my country, or my world is doing<\/li>\n<li>There is still a lot of laughter going on<\/li>\n<li>Denzel Washington won a SAG award for Fences<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that are on my mind\u00a0today&#8230; The health needs of a pastor friend and a young man in our school district That those in power don&#8217;t seem to see that wisdom always wants MORE input, never less That people believe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2017\/01\/30\/perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-as-we-know-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}