{"id":2161,"date":"2011-06-01T20:46:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:46:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T03:46:41","slug":"quiet-silent-drowning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/quiet-silent-drowning\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiet, Silent Drowning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted an <b>urgent-must-read<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/recognizing-drowning-in-progress\/\">piece about drowning in water<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The take-away lesson: <b>Not all people who are drowning look like they are drowning<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The same applies to other kinds of drowning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Drowning in debt<\/li>\n<li>Drowning in despair<\/li>\n<li>Drowning in doubt<\/li>\n<li>Drowning in delinquency<\/li>\n<li>Drowning in &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They can no longer help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Nor can they reach out for someone else&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p>And they even seem incapable of crying out.<\/p>\n<p>Might someone near you be drowning &#8230; and you don&#8217;t realize their mortal danger?<\/p>\n<p>When you <b>do<\/b> realize they&#8217;re drowning, will you rescue them?<\/p>\n<p>May God sharpen my vision, increase my awareness, and deepen my compassion.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I posted an urgent-must-read piece about drowning in water. The take-away lesson: Not all people who are drowning look like they are drowning. The same applies to other kinds of drowning. Drowning in debt Drowning in despair Drowning in doubt Drowning in delinquency Drowning in &#8230; They can no longer help themselves. Nor can &#8230; <a title=\"Quiet, Silent Drowning\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/quiet-silent-drowning\/\" aria-label=\"More on Quiet, Silent Drowning\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,534,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-thought","category-youve-been-warned"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-yR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}