{"id":5075,"date":"2022-10-05T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2022-10-05T12:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T17:33:22","slug":"pioneers-and-us-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=5075","title":{"rendered":"PIONEERS AND US (6)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a reluctance to ask someone to lend a hand when we need help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It becomes awkward when we have nothing to offer in return, or pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There seems to be a universal expectation today to pay or return a favor when someone helps someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the pioneers were not nearly so self-conscious&#8212;they just helped without obligation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a reluctance to ask someone to lend a hand when we need help. It becomes awkward when we have nothing to offer in return, or pay. There seems to be a universal expectation today to pay or return a favor when someone helps someone. I&#8217;m pretty sure the pioneers were not nearly so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}