{"id":1760,"date":"2006-12-09T15:32:28","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T23:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/09\/if-you-want-to-be-understood\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:55","slug":"if-you-want-to-be-understood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/12\/09\/if-you-want-to-be-understood\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want to Be Understood"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was misunderstood growing up and have often been misunderstood since, but then so is everyone else. People are busy, and you can&#8217;t expect them to drop everything and try to understand you. If you want to be understood, practice kindness and mercy. Kindness is seldom mistaken for anything else. Small kindnesses reverberate a long time in people&#8217;s hearts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Garrison Keillor<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This short column is worth a read; go <a href=\"http:\/\/prairiehome.publicradio.org\/features\/deskofgk\/2006\/old_scout\/10\/24.shtml\">here to do that<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was misunderstood growing up and have often been misunderstood since, but then so is everyone else. People are busy, and you can&#8217;t expect them to drop everything and try to understand you. If you want to be understood, practice kindness and mercy. Kindness is seldom mistaken for anything else. Small kindnesses reverberate a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12223,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/12223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}