{"id":6418,"date":"2022-09-14T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6418"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:58:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T17:58:24","slug":"dealing-with-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=6418","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you love truth, justice, and righteousness? <br>&#8220;Good!&#8221; to those who answer, &#8220;Yes!&#8221; <br>Now, do you hate that which contracts them? <br>(I.e. lies, crime, and general wickedness?) <br>Another good &#8220;yea!&#8221; due here. <br>What do you do about him whom you love? <br>You adore, nurture, and encourage him! <br>And him (or the evil) whom you hate? <br>You despise, shun, and suppress his ways! <br>(Surely, you do not embrace evil!) <br>And what of the evil one who is cleaned? <br>You embrace him as your own! <br>And him who remains filthy? <br>You continue to reject him, and yet <br>You are always ready to extend the invitation <br>To the evil one to repent and thus be cleansed. <br>A basic, simple principle &#8211; often hard to carry out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.m. on 14 Sept. 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you love truth, justice, and righteousness? &#8220;Good!&#8221; to those who answer, &#8220;Yes!&#8221; Now, do you hate that which contracts them? (I.e. lies, crime, and general wickedness?) Another good &#8220;yea!&#8221; due here. What do you do about him whom you love? You adore, nurture, and encourage him! And him (or the evil) whom you hate? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,57,18,52,23,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6419,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6418\/revisions\/6419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}