{"id":920,"date":"2008-08-19T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=920"},"modified":"2008-08-19T08:15:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T15:15:06","slug":"the-losers-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/the-losers-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Losers&#8221; Out There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You really ought to read the whole thing. Here are the concluding paragraphs.<\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldontheweb.com\/2008\/08\/19\/my-african-violet\/\">My African Violet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My mind made the leap from herbs to men. One encounters people throughout one\u2019s life who look like damaged goods. And no doubt they are. Droopy and lifeless, or curled in on themselves, they look gruesome and make the onlooker recoil and turn away.<\/p>\n<p>The plant withered because it was trying to save itself. The unappealing person caved in with depression or addiction or surliness is trying to save himself too. The lesson from the African Violet \u2014 and a cardinal rule for understanding human behavior \u2014 is that no one does anything for no reason. You need to find the reason. And just knowing that there is one stirs my compassion.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Thank you, Andr&eacute;e Seu!<\/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>You really ought to read the whole thing. Here are the concluding paragraphs. My African Violet My mind made the leap from herbs to men. One encounters people throughout one\u2019s life who look like damaged goods. And no doubt they are. Droopy and lifeless, or curled in on themselves, they look gruesome and make the &#8230; <a title=\"The &#8220;Losers&#8221; Out There\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/the-losers-out-there\/\" aria-label=\"More on The &#8220;Losers&#8221; Out There\">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":[4,12,534],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-todays-thought"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-eQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","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=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}