{"id":694,"date":"2008-10-31T11:24:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T18:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/?p=694"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:40:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:40:05","slug":"im-a-small-small-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2008\/10\/31\/im-a-small-small-person\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Small, Small Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to be a good person.  Really, I do.  I try to keep in mind how lucky and privileged I am and empathize with those who aren&#8217;t.  I try hard not to judge (too much).  I try to remind myself that I could be one of those who&#8217;ll need help one day so I shouldn&#8217;t begrudge the help offered to others, even if its at my expense.  I pay my taxes and don&#8217;t complain about them being too high because I reap a lot of benefits from the system.  And really, I don&#8217;t want people to lose their homes and I see the need for this in the bigger picture.  But yeah, a part of me can&#8217;t help but agree with this quote from a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/31\/business\/31bailout.html?em\">NYT article<\/a> on the homeowners&#8217; bailout plan:  &#8220;If all of our neighbors are getting bailed out despite their own bad decisions, arrogance or ignorance, and we&#8217;re asked to keep playing by the rules for the sake of the greater good, I don&#8217;t want to participate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to be a good person. Really, I do. I try to keep in mind how lucky and privileged I am and empathize with those who aren&#8217;t. I try hard not to judge (too much). I try to remind myself that I could be one of those who&#8217;ll need help one day so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}