{"id":10304,"date":"2012-09-29T08:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T13:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=10304"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:59:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T13:59:24","slug":"a-definition-of-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/a-definition-of-acceptance\/","title":{"rendered":"A Definition of Acceptance."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>We can live without romance and power, but there&#8217;s more potent that we all hope to have. When it&#8217;s been missing we get so thristy for it.<\/h2>\n<h2>Acceptance.<\/h2>\n<p>Gladys M. Hunt wrote,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Acceptance means you are valuable just as you are.<\/h3>\n<h3>It allows you to be the real you. You are not forced into someone else&#8217;s idea of who you are.<\/h3>\n<h3>It means your ideas are taken seriously since they reflect you. You can talk about how you feel inside, why you feel that way, and someone really cares.<\/h3>\n<h3>Acceptance means you can try out your ideal without being shot down. You can even express heretical thoughts and discuss them with intelligent questioning.<\/h3>\n<h3>You feel safe.<\/h3>\n<h3>No one will pronounce judgment on you even though they don&#8217;t agree with you. It doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;ll never be corrected or shown to be wrong. It simply means it&#8217;s safe to be you and no one will destroy you out of prejudice.<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Where have you felt this?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where have you felt [acceptance]?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[126,6006,37,2077,64],"class_list":["post-10304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-acceptance","tag-gladys-m-hunt","tag-hope","tag-love","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24824,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10304\/revisions\/24824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}