{"id":1752,"date":"2015-02-22T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T18:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2016-12-17T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T16:48:06","slug":"harmony-goodwill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/harmony-goodwill\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony &#038; Goodwill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Saar_1948_240_H\u00e4ndedruck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1753\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Saar_1948_240_H\u00e4ndedruck-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"Saar_1948_240_H\u00e4ndedruck\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Saar_1948_240_H\u00e4ndedruck-255x300.jpg 255w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Saar_1948_240_H\u00e4ndedruck.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps a sign of our times (or of our natures) that the word\u00a0<em>concord <\/em>does\u00a0not get used very much these days, and even <em>accord<\/em> is a word we hear rarely; yet we are all too\u00a0familiar with the word <em>discord<\/em>. <em>Concord<\/em> is agreement, harmony, unanimity, and <em>discord<\/em>: well, we all know about that.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient Romans had a day to deal with these things, and it is today, the 22nd of February. It is the Feast of Concordia, a feast of goodwill and harmony, and the concept was simple: family and friends gather for a meal and at that meal, all disputes are settled. It is a day to make amends for wrongs done, a day to reconcile differences. To put discord to rest and to nurture concord. To do this over bread and wine is a simple, humble act.<\/p>\n<p>If there is discord in your life, perhaps this is the ritual needed to turn that into concord, to activate peace and harmony. To be sure, the concord involves a willingness from both parties, and someone, of course, must have the courage to take the first step. But being willing to let go of bitterness and to activate concord is a dramatic change, and even if you find the other party unwilling, you have given yourself a great gift in releasing the power the discord has over you. That is the gift of this day, the gift of Concordia. And so we wish you harmony and goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is perhaps a sign of our times (or of our natures) that the word\u00a0concord does\u00a0not get used very much these days, and even accord is a word we hear rarely; yet we are all too\u00a0familiar with the word discord. Concord is agreement, harmony, unanimity, and discord: well, we all know about that. The ancient [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}