{"id":94878,"date":"2017-07-17T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=94878"},"modified":"2017-07-09T10:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T09:08:42","slug":"good-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/good-for-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Good for the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>We have lived our lives by the assumption that <\/em><br \/>\n<em>what was good for us would be good for the world. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>We have been wrong. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We must change our lives so that <\/em><br \/>\n<em>it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that <\/em><br \/>\n<em>what is good for the world will be good for us. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>And that requires that we make the effort to <\/em><br \/>\n<em>know the world and learn what is good for it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>_______________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wendell-Erdman-Berry.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-94879 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wendell-Erdman-Berry-e1498993838634.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><em>Wendell Erdman Berry is an American novelist, poet, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. A prolific author, he has written many novels, short stories, poems, and essays. <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wendell_Berry\" >Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have lived our lives by the assumption that<br \/>\nwhat was good for us would be good for the world.<br \/>\nWe have been wrong. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94878","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=94878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}