{"id":1104,"date":"2016-10-29T05:35:05","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:35:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T09:35:05","slug":"october-29-gentleness-a-universal-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"October 29 \u2013 Gentleness A Universal Value"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"October 29 \u2013 Gentleness A Universal Value\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1104\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/102916_0935_October29Ge1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">As the U S Presidential Election approaches I notice that people are less gentle with their friends as they try to promote their favorite candidate.  It is impossible for all of us to agree all the time.  But it is possible to express our views in a gentle way that will not offend those who have chosen a different candidate than we have chosen.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana; font-size:16pt\">The above quote from a Muslim theologian shows me that gentleness is a universal value all of us can share!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 As the U S Presidential Election approaches I notice that people are less gentle with their friends as they try to promote their favorite candidate. It is impossible for all of us to agree all the time. But it is possible to express our views in a gentle way that will not offend those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=1104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">October 29 \u2013 Gentleness A Universal Value<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}