{"id":4445,"date":"2013-09-24T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2013-09-24T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T00:11:38","slug":"fear-and-love-fear-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Fear and love, fear and love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two years, I learned that there are only two true emotions: fear and love.<\/p>\n<p>Out of fear, comes contempt, hatred, anger.  It&#8217;s the destructive one (when not appropriately) handled.  Yet, it&#8217;s okay to be afraid, because that&#8217;s how we know not to put our fingers on a burning stove.  The pain tells us that something is not right.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s love.  This begets happiness.  This so internal.  When contentment becomes a feeling of <i>everything<\/i>.  Belonging, peace, and support.  People change tremendously when they are met with a smile and appreciation.  When I walk along with anger festering in my mind and others only meet me with gratitude and happiness, how can I not say &#8220;hello!  I am so happy to see you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today while I sat in a cafe across from someone in deep pain, I was at a loss.  It wasn&#8217;t my game to play, and really all I could offer was, &#8220;Try love.  I believe that will help you.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past two years, I learned that there are only two true emotions: fear and love. Out of fear, comes contempt, hatred, anger. It&#8217;s the destructive one (when not appropriately) handled. Yet, it&#8217;s okay to be afraid, because that&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4445\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}