{"id":76653,"date":"2016-08-01T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=76653"},"modified":"2016-08-01T12:19:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T11:19:06","slug":"the-battle-for-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/08\/the-battle-for-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Battle for Compassion is a short film by Jonathan Leighton about what matters and how we can have greater impact in shaping a gentler future for our planet. The film draws on key ideas from his book <em>The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe<\/em>. He advocates the reduction of intense human and animal suffering as our highest ethical priority, and the creation of compassionate and rational decision-making structures that meet the needs of all.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DBiKl_v5Mls<br \/>\n<em>French-subtitled version: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e-htLAPPgMo\" >https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e-htL&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nSpanish-subtitled version: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NqFpB51_cg0\" >https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NqFpB&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nArabic-subtitled version: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_3R3VQ4-qo\" >https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_3R3&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short film by Jonathan Leighton about what matters and how we can have greater impact in shaping a gentler future for our planet. The film draws on key ideas from his book, &#8216;The Battle for Compassion: Ethics in an Apathetic Universe.&#8217; He advocates the reduction of intense human and animal suffering as our highest ethical priority, and the creation of compassionate and rational decision-making structures that meet the needs of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}