{"id":22343,"date":"2025-04-09T06:41:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T11:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=22343"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:18:55","slug":"the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=22343","title":{"rendered":"The Other"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I met a man whose beliefs are different from mine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It made me stumble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I walk on firm footing of who is right and who is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And he stands in the wrong lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which made me reel back and re-evaluate whether I dislike those who are wrong as much as I thought I do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they are wrong, and he is wrong, then why are we still talking?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to be with the right people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love to hear my rightness echoed back to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I listen for confirmation of how right I am. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He does not confirm my beliefs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I suddenly feel wrong for saying mean things about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I am saying mean things about him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Babeeee, I have gone and done it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have met the Other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we are still talking. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Who doesn’t love a bird captured by the wonderous lens of artist Marian Glaser? This heron is one of the many who dwell in my small coastal town in Mississippi. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I met a man whose beliefs are different from mine. It made me stumble. I walk on firm footing of who is right and who is wrong. And he stands in the wrong lane. Which made me reel back and re-evaluate whether I dislike those who are wrong as much as I thought I do. If they are wrong, and he is wrong, then why are we still talking? I want to be with the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5On","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22366,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22343\/revisions\/22366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}