{"id":15519,"date":"2017-01-25T23:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T04:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2017-01-25T23:03:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T04:03:07","slug":"from-the-power-of-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15519","title":{"rendered":"From: The Power of Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the political arena, kindness is the giving up of domination and vendetta, and the recognition of others&#8217; points of view, their needs, and their history. Violence and war, on the other hand, appear more and more as remarkably gross and inefficient ways for resolving the world&#8217;s problems \u2014 a method that generates rage and thus new violence, chaos, waste of resources, suffering and poverty. \u2014 Piero Ferrucci, The Power of Kindness, The Unexpected Benefits of Leading a Compassionate Life<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the political arena, kindness is the giving up of domination and vendetta, and the recognition of others&#8217; points of view, their needs, and their history. <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=15519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[13,27,144,155],"tags":[836,835,837],"class_list":["post-15519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-the-work","category-good-causes","category-life-around-us","category-reads-2","tag-currentevents","tag-kindness","tag-realdonaldtrump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-42j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15520,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15519\/revisions\/15520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}