{"id":3832,"date":"2008-07-07T10:19:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3832"},"modified":"2008-07-07T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:24:16","slug":"shawn-groves-if-my-children-grow-up-to-be-average-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/shawn-groves-if-my-children-grow-up-to-be-average-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Groves :: If my children grow up to be average Americans&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaungroves.com\/shlog\/comments\/saving_the_children\/\">Shawn Groves<\/a><\/strong> writes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;If my children grow up to be average Americans I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have failed them as a parent.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>he continues:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If they spend four hours a day watching other people live on a television screen.  If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bored.<\/p>\n<p>If they go to school to get a job so their kids can go to school so they can get a job so their kids can go to school&#8230;If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re without purpose.<\/p>\n<p>If they take more than they give and want more than they have.  If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re greedy.<\/p>\n<p>If everyone in their prayers looks like them.  If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re unaware.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve failed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaungroves.com\/shlog\/comments\/saving_the_children\/\">Read the rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related ::<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassion.com\/\">Compassion International<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassion.com\/sponsor_a_child\/default.htm?referer=69628\">Sponsor a child<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=3828\">SSL :: using kids as buzz marketers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Groves writes: &#8220;If my children grow up to be average Americans I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have failed them as a parent.&#8221; he continues: If they spend four hours a day watching other people live on a television screen. If they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bored. If they go to school to get a job so their kids can go to school &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/shawn-groves-if-my-children-grow-up-to-be-average-americans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shawn Groves :: If my children grow up to be average Americans&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13,19,17],"tags":[1252,1251,1137,1250],"class_list":["post-3832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mi-familia","category-music","category-reflections","category-take-action","tag-americans","tag-average","tag-children","tag-shawn-groves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-ZO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}