{"id":220,"date":"2016-02-03T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/?p=220"},"modified":"2016-02-03T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:55:32","slug":"bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/03\/bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have always been bullies.\u00a0 Yet it seems that the bullies today are getting meaner, uglier and relentless.\u00a0 Social media has been a venue for horrible attacks on young persons and even adults.\u00a0 There is a boldness that comes from feeling protected by the technology.\u00a0 It scares me.<\/p>\n<p>I ran across this music video recently and it was really uplifting.\u00a0 It is called Love Yourself by Khari.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/21LHPg57nxg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I wish every person could feel good about him\/herself and revel in the person they are.\u00a0 We are not all the same but unique and special in our own way.\u00a0 God created someone beautiful and loves each one of us exactly as we are.\u00a0 Our job is to find out how to be the best &#8220;me&#8221; we can be.\u00a0 It starts by respecting who we are and not who someone else says we are supposed to be, or some ideal placed upon us by media or persons who think they know everything or trying to sell us something.\u00a0 I am okay, I am a child of God, I am loved.\u00a0 I can love myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have always been bullies.\u00a0 Yet it seems that the bullies today are getting meaner, uglier and relentless.\u00a0 Social media has been a venue for horrible attacks on young persons and even adults.\u00a0 There is a boldness that comes from feeling protected by the technology.\u00a0 It scares me. I ran across this music video recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,134,137,136],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antibullyingsong","tag-bullying","tag-gods-love","tag-love-of-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3d89p-bullying","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spiritualdirectioninwg.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}