{"id":618,"date":"2009-01-19T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/we-love-someone-for-who-they-are-not-what-they-do\/"},"modified":"2013-12-21T21:06:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T01:06:01","slug":"we-love-someone-for-who-they-are-not-what-they-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/we-love-someone-for-who-they-are-not-what-they-do\/","title":{"rendered":"We love someone for who they are &#8211; not what they do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke with this crystal clear realization this morning. \u00a0(It seems obvious, but bear with me for a moment.)<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s easy to grasp, this principle is incredibly hard to live out in our lives with others. Expectations and wrong doing have to be set aside, if love is to be.<\/p>\n<p>It is also a profound fundamental truth which our identity as human beings is based upon: who we are &#8211; not how we function.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a very simple, but elegant argument for the humanity of the unborn based on our understanding of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I awoke with this crystal clear realization this morning. \u00a0(It seems obvious, but bear with me for a moment.) While it&#8217;s easy to grasp, this principle is incredibly hard to live out in our lives with others. Expectations and wrong &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/we-love-someone-for-who-they-are-not-what-they-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[9,100],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beliefs","tag-abortion","tag-love"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}