{"id":131799,"date":"2016-10-15T13:30:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/when-control-is-strength-and-compassion-is-weakness.html"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:30:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T19:30:12","slug":"when-control-is-strength-and-compassion-is-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/when-control-is-strength-and-compassion-is-weakness.html","title":{"rendered":"When Control is Strength and Compassion is Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at this year&#39;s election, particularly between the two major party candidates for President, this vlog rings terribly true. One candidate speaks the language of fear, of threat, of control, of making us safe by making us strong, of going it alone, of building walls, of building nukes, of building armies, of getting rid of foreigners and criminals and opponents. The other candidate speaks of unity, of fixing problems together, of helping others, of reaching out, of being stronger through allies, of community.<\/p>\n<p>I know which rings more true to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BC7JRRlZHHI' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/NKdpF9rWyiM'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I look at this year&#39;s election, particularly between the two major party candidates for President, this vlog rings terribly true. One candidate speaks the language of fear, of threat, of control, of making us safe by making us strong, of going it alone, of building walls, of building nukes, of building armies, of getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/15\/when-control-is-strength-and-compassion-is-weakness.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Control is Strength and Compassion is Weakness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135276,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/04\/lord-rings-tv-series-tell.html","url_meta":{"origin":131799,"position":0},"title":"A &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; &#8230; TV series? 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