{"id":11208,"date":"2016-12-11T13:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=11208"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:23:44","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T19:23:44","slug":"i-may-be-good-but-i-am-not-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=11208","title":{"rendered":"I May Be Good, but I Am Not Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Bible defines goodness for us as \u201can inherent rightness of being.\u201d It never ever mentions niceness. It never equates it with beauty or talent. It never, ever mistakes it for showmanship. (Moses himself had a lisp and timidly refused his mandate by God to lead the Jews out of Egypt.) If anything, it warns us from the very beginning to beware of pretense.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/being-a-good-person-versus-being-a-nice-girl-979114273\" target=\"_blank\">Good Versus Nice<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/judith-acosta\/nice-but-not-good-the-art_b_772965.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nice But Not Good<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible defines goodness for us as \u201can inherent rightness of being.\u201d It never ever mentions niceness. It never equates it with beauty or talent. It never, ever mistakes it for showmanship. (Moses himself had a lisp and timidly refused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=11208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11212,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11208\/revisions\/11212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}