{"id":62678,"date":"2017-08-02T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=62678"},"modified":"2017-08-02T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:23:54","slug":"why-not-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2017\/08\/02\/why-not-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Why not you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62572\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Matt.jpg\" alt=\"matt\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Matt.jpg 500w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Matt-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Matt-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Matt-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Matt-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">We like to hide behind our big institutional solutions to problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">That\u2019s why we\u2019d rather elect somebody to clean up the streets than take a walk down our own street with some paint and a broom. That\u2019s why we\u2019re more likely to pay higher taxes to support the elderly than to spend time getting to know them. And it\u2019s why we\u2019re more likely to drop ten dollars in the collection plate than we are to take a homeless man to lunch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-size: 18px\">We love to subsidize and outsource our charity and the fixing of our problems.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Matthew Warner,\u00a0Messy &amp; Foolish<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like to hide behind our big institutional solutions to problems. That\u2019s why we\u2019d rather elect somebody to clean up the streets than take a walk down our own street with some paint and a broom. That\u2019s why we\u2019re more likely to pay higher taxes to support the elderly than to spend time getting to know them. And it\u2019s why<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[3959,3536,3780,3960],"class_list":["post-62678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-insitutions","tag-matthew-warner","tag-messy-foolish","tag-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62678"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64977,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62678\/revisions\/64977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}