{"id":3218,"date":"2023-10-31T18:23:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2023-11-01T03:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T13:19:17","slug":"its-still-a-beautiful-world-with-lots-of-good-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s still a beautiful world with lots of good people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We should all watch more Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood regularly. He will remind us to be consistent &#8211; &#8211; to hold basic respect for others and recognize the free-agency of each individual. Nobody has to think exactly like us. The world would be a more peaceful and reasonable place on all levels, if we&#8217;re fair and consistent to ourselves and to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s be that helper. Let&#8217;s be good neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM-834x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3219\" srcset=\"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM-834x1024.png 834w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM-366x450.png 366w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM-768x943.png 768w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM-1251x1536.png 1251w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM-624x766.png 624w, http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screen-Shot-2023-10-31-at-6.05.07-PM.png 1428w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I recall a sage advice very early on in my youthful civic engagement from a community activist. She noticed me and took me under her wings to share her decades of experience in protecting the environment, open space, and community empowerment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Be careful. Avoid fanatics on all sides. They&#8217;ll support and love you when you don&#8217;t cross them. But when you don&#8217;t fit their mold of thinking or their causes, they&#8217;ll not hesitate to eat you, chew you good, and spit you out! &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We should all watch more Mister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood regularly. He will remind us to be consistent &#8211; &#8211; to hold basic respect for others and recognize the free-agency of each individual. Nobody has to think exactly like us. The world would be a more peaceful and reasonable place on all levels, if we&#8217;re fair and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[619,620,617,361,618,362],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-free-agency","tag-mr-rogers","tag-peace","tag-reason","tag-respect"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3223,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/countrytalkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}