{"id":172,"date":"2010-03-12T23:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-03-12T23:33:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T23:33:39","slug":"guidance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2008)<br \/>\nDear Guides and Guardian Spirits, Temple Grandin\u2019s stories of animal violence have left me feeling very discouraged about the future of our planet.\u00a0 Please help me find a context big enough so I can keep my energy for going on.<br \/>\n<em>Dear Jenny, what if it were true that violence is \u201cnatural\u201d, is part of the process of life on this planet?\u00a0 This does not mean that it can\u2019t be changed, but you have to understand what\u2019s going on in order to design an intervention that will work.\u00a0 Human compassion is also \u201cnatural\u201d and can be encouraged.\u00a0 If humans are the stewards of the planet, then part of their job is to work for more compassion, less violence.\u00a0 Also, Temple herself points out that a lot of the violence is not \u201cnatural\u201d, it is caused by environmental pressures such as humans breeding for a single trait, or invading animals\u2019 habitats.\u00a0 The sonar waves that cause whales to beach themselves may cause dolphins to become violent.\u00a0 In either case, working for increased compassion and understanding is never a waste of time and energy.\u00a0 Also, remember the huge love that enfolds you and the dolphins, and the oil companies, and the rapist roosters, whatever you have done or not done.\u00a0 And we love you too.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Written in January 2008) Dear Guides and Guardian Spirits, Temple Grandin\u2019s stories of animal violence have left me feeling very discouraged about the future of our planet.\u00a0 Please help me find a context big enough so I can keep my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=172\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}