{"id":400,"date":"2008-09-11T23:16:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-09-11T23:16:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:16:18","slug":"philosophy-for-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy for Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of people in this world: those who ask &#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221; and those who ask &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221; The first kind believes the world owes them something in exchange for gracing it with their presence. They obsess over the wrongs that other people or &#8220;the system&#8221; or God has committed against them and are often angry and unhappy. The second kind is grateful for what they have and eager to share it with others. They feel a responsibility to do the right thing regardless of recognition or reward. Although they might be tired, they are often happy.<\/p>\n<p>I see both kinds of people at work, in the Church, and among my people. I try to be the second type of person, although I don&#8217;t always succeed. The closer I get, the happier I am. Which kind of person are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two kinds of people in this world: those who ask &#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221; and those who ask &#8220;What can I do for you?&#8221; The first kind believes the world owes them something in exchange for gracing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=400\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}