{"id":95,"date":"2009-11-23T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/ideasdigest\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-12-14T23:42:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T23:42:23","slug":"95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/95\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nature or nurture.\u00a0 That is it.\u00a0 That\u2019s the choice.\u00a0 As well as being a clich\u00e9 it misses something really important.\u00a0 In explaining something, the other option is \u201cno, it is me\u201d.\u00a0 Looking back for explanations leads so easily to excuses.\u00a0 Living in the now, in the present, the moment, demands personal responsibility.\u00a0 Stopping and reflecting on personal choices is hard,\u00a0but helpful.<\/p>\n<p>So when you next hear that little phrase to do with biology or socialisation, think \u201cNow, how might deciding to see the issues as about personal choice change things?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature or nurture.\u00a0 That is it.\u00a0 That\u2019s the choice.\u00a0 As well as being a clich\u00e9 it misses something really important.\u00a0 In explaining something, the other option is \u201cno, it is me\u201d.\u00a0 Looking back for explanations leads so easily to excuses.\u00a0 Living in the now, in the present, the moment, demands personal responsibility.\u00a0 Stopping and reflecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[38,40,41,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}