{"id":152,"date":"2015-12-05T14:57:19","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T14:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/?p=152"},"modified":"2015-12-05T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T15:02:11","slug":"make-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/2015\/12\/05\/make-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Bridge-Closed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-image: none; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto; border: 0px;\" title=\"Bridge Closed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Bridge-Closed_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"Bridge Closed\" width=\"420\" height=\"281\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u2018&#8217;\u201dWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Victor Frankl<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;\">When the situation around us seems challenging and we don\u2019t know what to do; maybe we should look within ourselves.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;\">We cannot change others, they must change themselves.\u00a0 Forcing them to think or do what we want will only cause later anger and resentment.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;\">We CAN change ourselves.\u00a0 What can we do to help the situation?\u00a0 Are we just adding to the conflict or are we part of the solution?\u00a0 Are we just complaining or are we helping?\u00a0 Are we just handing out empty words and no positive action?<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;\">Showing unconditional love, kindness, empathy, forgiveness, respect, and acceptance can go a long way to positively changing yourself.\u00a0 This change <u>will have<\/u> a positive impact on others around you and will spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;\">Martin Luther King wrote about not trying to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding.\u00a0 He believed that at the center of action must be love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #3366ff;\">This holiday season, lets all work on making our own change to impact our world!\u00a0 Make a change, be the change!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018&#8217;\u201dWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 Victor Frankl When the situation around us seems challenging and we don\u2019t know what to do; maybe we should look within ourselves.\u00a0 We cannot change others, they must change themselves.\u00a0 Forcing them to think or do what we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mndare.org\/WordPress\/parents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}