{"id":89120,"date":"2017-08-19T13:29:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=89120"},"modified":"2017-08-19T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T12:29:17","slug":"things-which-make-me-very-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/08\/19\/things-which-make-me-very-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"Things which make me very sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Intolerance to different cultures<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Blaming people less fortunate than ourselves for our own problems<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Being uncharitable to those with illness or disability<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Accusing those in poverty of bringing it on themselves<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Not helping those who are struggling because we consider them undeserving<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Racial hatred<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Deliberate spreading and dissemination of lies and hate speech<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Laughing at the misfortunes of others<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Deliberately making life difficult for others<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Ignoring facts which disagree with \u00a0your political or religious agenda<\/h2>\n<h3>This is not the world as I would have expected it to be in 2017, somethings gone very wrong don&#8217;t you think?<\/h3>\n<h3>How did we get here?<\/h3>\n<h3>One reason is that ignorance breeds fear.<\/h3>\n<h5>Odd at a time when for many people more information is available at your fingertips then ever before, people seem less well informed then ever.<\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intolerance to different cultures Blaming people less fortunate than ourselves for our own problems Being uncharitable to those with illness or disability Accusing those in poverty of bringing it on themselves Not helping those who are struggling because we consider them undeserving Racial hatred Deliberate spreading and dissemination of lies and hate speech Laughing at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2017\/08\/19\/things-which-make-me-very-sad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things which make me very sad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Things which make me very sad","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-nbq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":945,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2010\/12\/15\/clarity\/","url_meta":{"origin":89120,"position":0},"title":"Clarity","author":"diana Stone","date":"December 15, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Its given to us if we are lucky at times the ability to see things more or less as they really are rather than through our usual often distorted perspective. 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