{"id":152,"date":"2010-02-15T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2010-02-15T08:52:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:52:22","slug":"for-or-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"For or Against?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With cold weather and a day off from school, our son Luke recently -and a bit loudly -complained; &#8220;You&#8217;re just <em>against<\/em> TV&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm maybe; and in a much greater, more active way, I&#8217;m just more <em>for<\/em> reading or listening to books on CD\/Mp3 while <em>being active<\/em>&#8230;.walking, cycling, etc etc. In fact I&#8217;m <em>for<\/em> being active over couch potato, video console, Xbox &#8211; whatever screen device.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa had a habit of never being <em>against<\/em> anything; rather she had a habit of being<em> for<\/em> things.\u00a0 When invited to an &#8220;anit-war&#8221; rally she politely declined and came back with <em>&#8220;When you have a rally FOR peace, I&#8217;ll be there&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She seemed to live well and\/or do a lot of good with that philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>There also is a quote;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Stand for something, or you&#8217;ll fall for anything&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever considered what you stand FOR?\u00a0 What is the legacy you leave behind for your kids, family, the world?\u00a0 A bit premature&#8230;.but how do you want to be remembered?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With cold weather and a day off from school, our son Luke recently -and a bit loudly -complained; &#8220;You&#8217;re just against TV&#8221; Hmmm maybe; and in a much greater, more active way, I&#8217;m just more for reading or listening to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=152\">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-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}