{"id":111,"date":"2008-06-10T20:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T20:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:23:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T00:23:24","slug":"more-on-semantics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"more on semantics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what it says about us humans, all the labels we derived from our short comings and frailties and from the darkest parts of ourselves &#8211; rapists, murderers, liars, crooks, cheats, molesters, good-for-nothings, thieves, swindlers, goons, bullies and so on.  Help me out if you can think of a comparable list derived from the best of who we are.  What do we got: heros and saviors and the likes.  Even then they tend not be about specific behaviors, and certainly not about specific behaviors we want to encourage.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s something going on about fear and punishment and how little we are interested as a culture in cultivating compassion and forgiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what it says about us humans, all the labels we derived from our short comings and frailties and from the darkest parts of ourselves &#8211; rapists, murderers, liars, crooks, cheats, molesters, good-for-nothings, thieves, swindlers, goons, bullies and so on. Help me out if you can think of a comparable list derived from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-semantics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}