{"id":2934,"date":"2020-11-21T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2020-11-21T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:54:42","slug":"we-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"We Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got my author copy of If There&#8217;s Anyone Left Vol 1 today: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B08NR9QYJK\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1605799178&amp;sr=8-2&amp;fbclid=IwAR00-sRdXewabTuAQAgAeqDoSnEYMPaPEhJ1zPjy_z08aJBPrgdppsdC6h8\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B08NR9QYJK\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0&#8230;<\/a>\u2026 Can&#8217;t wait to dive into the other stories! But let me say something about mine a minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a lot of stories about good people being ground down by heartless systems. And that&#8217;s a real thing that happens. But I feel like when that&#8217;s the only story we tell, it feels inevitable. We get nihilistic about it. &#8220;Good person destroyed by bad system, of course!&#8221; There&#8217;s also the template of good people being corrupted by the systems they&#8217;re in. That happens too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I wanted to tell a story that was the opposite. I don&#8217;t believe that evil is stronger than good. I believe our kindness can be effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is one of those stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway it&#8217;s pretty short, and I hope you like it. It&#8217;s called &#8220;We Care.&#8221; And I can&#8217;t wait to see what the other stories in this beautiful little volume have to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my author copy of If There&#8217;s Anyone Left Vol 1 today: https:\/\/amazon.com\/dp\/B08NR9QYJK\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0&#8230;\u2026 Can&#8217;t wait to dive into the other stories! But let me say something about mine a minute. There are a lot of stories about good people being ground down by heartless systems. And that&#8217;s a real thing that happens. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,52],"class_list":["post-2934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing","tag-short-story-glory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2935,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2934\/revisions\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}