{"id":235,"date":"2012-03-17T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=235"},"modified":"2012-03-17T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T04:40:02","slug":"consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=235","title":{"rendered":"Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about consideration. What does it take to be considerate? How do we know if we\u2019re being considerate? At what point do we put the needs of others above our own? I find consideration to be a simple matter of understanding. When someone asks you not to do something that annoys them, you don\u2019t do it anymore. But why is this not such a simple concept to most people? Where do we learn to be considerate? Is this innate? Or this consideration something we learn from our parents?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However we learn the basic principles of consideration, we must remember that it isn\u2019t all about us. That would be much easier, but it wouldn\u2019t be a learning process. We cannot always put our needs first. When practicing consideration, remember that someone else may need something greater than you; remember to be understanding. After all, understanding is all consideration really takes. Well, that, and an awareness of other people. \u00a0If you\u2019re considerate, the favor will be returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about consideration. What does it take to be considerate? How do we know if we\u2019re being considerate? At what point do we put the needs of others above our own? I find consideration to be a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}