{"id":51786,"date":"2014-11-27T02:40:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T07:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdrnsamurai.io\/?p=51786"},"modified":"2024-03-31T04:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T09:07:58","slug":"for-this-i-am-thankful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2014\/11\/27\/for-this-i-am-thankful\/","title":{"rendered":"For this I am thankful&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A personal note before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the things I am thankful for &#8211; and there are many &#8211; I am thankful for the people who make my life immeasurably richer.<\/p>\n<p>This year I want to thank in particular those among you with whom I share a gulf of opinion. I am a fact oriented person with a significant empathy deficit and it permeates how I speak and how I interact. This is neither flaw to apologize for nor a strength to be extolled &#8211; it has it&#8217;s advantages and disadvantages. <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">What it DOES mean is that I discuss. A lot. I speak out. I give my opinion. I do not shy away from conflict or passionate discourse.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>It is in that context then I express my gratitude to those in my life with whom I CAN have those discussions. The amazing men and women that I can disagree with but who understand that underneath there is a bedrock of loyalty and respect that I offer and accept with enduring gratitude.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal note before Thanksgiving. Of all the things I am thankful for &#8211; and there are many &#8211; I am thankful for the people who make my life immeasurably richer. This year I want to thank in particular those among you with whom I share a gulf of opinion. I am a fact oriented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56297,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51786\/revisions\/56297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}