{"id":2640,"date":"2016-02-22T08:06:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T13:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2016-12-15T23:27:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T04:27:22","slug":"harmony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/harmony\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares-300x195.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Some_Have_Entertained_Angels_Unawares.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am, I think, far too lazy to hold grudges against people or to be offended by things others say or do or to worry what others think of me. I&#8217;ve witnessed others hold grudges and be offended and the like, and it takes a lot of work and energy to do so. Choosing harmony is what I prefer. It&#8217;s just plain easier.<\/p>\n<p>Harmony is the theme of this day. It is the old Roman feast of Concordia:\u00a0a day for folks to reconcile their differences, to make amends, traditionally celebrated as a meal amongst family and friends, with one purpose: the settling of all disputes that cause discord. Plain and simple, no need to elaborate further. Harmony begins with each of us, and here, today with Concordia, the Romans had a simple reset button. When you&#8217;re ready to move on, do it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: &#8220;Some have Entertained Angels Unawares&#8221; by Edward Clifford. Watercolor, late 19th century. [Public domain] via Wikimedia Commons.<\/em><\/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>I am, I think, far too lazy to hold grudges against people or to be offended by things others say or do or to worry what others think of me. I&#8217;ve witnessed others hold grudges and be offended and the like, and it takes a lot of work and energy to do so. Choosing harmony [&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\/2640"}],"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=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conviviobookworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}