{"id":82,"date":"2008-11-15T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-11-15T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T14:00:15","slug":"proof-pudding-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/proof-pudding-eating\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof, Pudding, Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The proof of the pudding is in the eating.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to get carried away in the moment, to make\u00a0gargantuan claims about the transformative qualities\u00a0of a person, even before that person has had a chance to do anything other than get elected.\u00a0Of course, being the humans, we can&#8217;t help ourselves &#8212; it seems only natural to get swept up in a moment. To believe in a cause, or a person, so strongly, that when we come across someone who has an opposing view, we shake our heads, look at them with a pitiful gaze and think: <em>if only this person knew the truth<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It can get pretty polarizing without a little perspective. So maybe we should all\u00a0play the cards a little closer to our chests; keep a lid on major assertions; and not forget that although the pudding has been baked, we need to let it cool down before we can find out what it tastes like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proof of the pudding is in the eating.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to get carried away in the moment, to make\u00a0gargantuan claims about the transformative qualities\u00a0of a person, even before that person has had a chance to do anything other than get elected.\u00a0Of course, being the humans, we can&#8217;t help ourselves &#8212; it seems only natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43,44,41,42],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-eating","tag-movements","tag-proof","tag-pudding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}