{"id":5757,"date":"2021-12-12T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T03:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=5757"},"modified":"2021-12-12T20:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T03:46:40","slug":"action-and-opinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2021\/12\/action-and-opinions\/","title":{"rendered":"action and opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have a friend who is very anti-Trump. He believes that everything, every single thing Trump does is evil.<br><br>I changed the subject and we talked about other things.<br><br>But I thought about it some more. IHe is highly charged on the topic, and not open to other perspectives. Which makes conversation very one sided.<br><br>It&#8217;s a pillar in my life to be open to other perspectives. How would I feel if I had the same perspective on the topic?<br><br>If everything Trump did was truly evil.<br><br>I thought of Bonhoeffer. He is the pastor in the time of Hitler who came to the conclusion that is was his duty as a christian to assasinate Hitler.<br><br>I am a woman of Action.I admire Bonhoeffer a lot.<br><br>It&#8217;s a serious thing to take a life. Dostoyevsky talks about it in Crime and Punishment.<br><br>I hope to life my entire existence without taking a life.<br><br>My Action-orientation combines with my perspective seeking gives me a balance.<br><br><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a friend who is very anti-Trump. He believes that everything, every single thing Trump does is evil. I changed the subject and we talked about other things. But I thought about it some more. IHe is highly charged &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2021\/12\/action-and-opinions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5764,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5757\/revisions\/5764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}