{"id":7220,"date":"2012-01-24T01:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T07:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2012-01-24T01:33:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T07:33:35","slug":"causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=7220","title":{"rendered":"Causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hamish: Where are you going?<br \/>\nWilliam Wallace: I&#8217;m going to pick a fight.<br \/>\nHamish: Well, we didn&#8217;t get dressed up for nothing.  &#8211; Braveheart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like many of you, I believe in living for things that are greater than yourself. <\/p>\n<p>Even if your other obligations keep you, like me, from spending every minute and dollar and calorie fighting for your chosen causes, they can still provide a framework for your life and influence the decisions you make the rest of the time. If you&#8217;ve read more than two posts on here or on my Facebook feed, you already know that I have lots of causes. Perhaps I drive you crazy with them, which makes me appreciate you all the more for putting up with me and my quests, pleas, guilt trips, and fundraising campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few things I believe in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loving God and loving people<\/li>\n<li>Protecting the environment &#8211; using less, polluting less, being a good steward of the world God created rather than exploiting it for short-term gain<\/li>\n<li>Clean water and food for those who lack it<\/li>\n<li>Health care for all, not just those lucky enough to afford it or obtain it through work<\/li>\n<li>Education and job opportunity as a means of climbing from poverty and raising the standard of living for society overall<\/li>\n<li>Better health through better choices &#8211; exercise, higher quality food and drink, toxin avoidance<\/li>\n<li>Tolerance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously, I don&#8217;t always support these goals with every choice I make. Every choice is a trade-off in some way. But I try to let them guide my decisions.<\/p>\n<p>What are some of the things you believe in? What do you fight for? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamish: Where are you going? William Wallace: I&#8217;m going to pick a fight. Hamish: Well, we didn&#8217;t get dressed up for nothing. &#8211; Braveheart Like many of you, I believe in living for things that are greater than yourself. Even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=7220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220"}],"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=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7296,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}