{"id":1232,"date":"2011-11-22T17:46:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T01:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/11\/the-need-of-the-hour-conscientous-compassion.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:39","slug":"the-need-of-the-hour-conscientous-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/11\/the-need-of-the-hour-conscientous-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Need of the Hour: Conscientous Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"

“To understand the necessity of change, we must consider not only our short-term personal advantage but also the long-range impact our choices have on others we will never know or see: on people living in remote lands, on generations as yet unborn, and on the other species that share our planet.<\/p>\n

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What is required of us is to adopt a panoramic ethical point of view that takes us far beyond the bounds of mere expediency.” Ven. Bikkhu Bodhi<\/i>, Tricycle magazine’s Wisdom Colllection<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"To understand the necessity of change, we must consider not only our short-term personal advantage but also the long-range impact our choices have on others we will never know or see: on people living in remote lands, on generations as… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}