{"id":2617,"date":"2015-11-12T07:29:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2015-11-12T07:29:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T12:29:20","slug":"gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/fbcjaxwatchdog.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/thanksgiving.html\" target=\"_blank\">nice riff by Tom Rich<\/a> on giving thanks.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Take responsibility not just for your failings and screw-ups, but for your successes too.  If God can get the credit for everything we ever did right, then why doesn&#8217;t he get any blame for anything that is wrong? It&#8217;s our fault when we fail, it&#8217;s his blessings when we succeed?  Tell that to the kids and their parents in the cancer wards; and to starving, abused and neglected children everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well said.  And I&#8217;ll add one of my own pet peeves &#8212; the cosmic blessing of a successful surgery.<\/p>\n<p>It was the scientists, doctors, and engineers whose thousands of hours devoted to the most exacting study, while idiot preachers were conniving at undermining their education, that developed the know-how and technology that plucked-out grammy&#8217;s gall bladder.  And shame on anybody so out of touch with reality that he can&#8217;t see that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice riff by Tom Rich on giving thanks. Take responsibility not just for your failings and screw-ups, but for your successes too. If God can get the credit for everything we ever did right, then why doesn&#8217;t he get &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=2617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}