{"id":599,"date":"2004-09-20T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/20\/what-true-caring-asks-for\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:01","slug":"what-true-caring-asks-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/20\/what-true-caring-asks-for\/","title":{"rendered":"What True Caring Asks For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tish and I had a discussion last week about physical appearance and cultural attitudes.  I then <a title=\"A Mindful Life: Speaking Of Unspeakable Things\" href=\"\/mindfullife\/archives\/000586.html\">briefly posted<\/a> about it and quoted from an article I&#8217;d read in the NY Times.  Tish was able to access the article by Harriet McBryde Johnson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racematters.org\/harrietmcbrydejohnson.htm\">elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tish then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatshadow.com\/September2004.htm#e848\">contemplated<\/a> the article and a movie she watched.  Here&#8217;s an excerpt: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is easier to care for the beautiful, strong, able, bright and shiny. It does require a kind of effort to know how to look and really see people. True caring asks us for some effort. I think, for the people who make the effort, it doesn&#8217;t feel like effort. It feels obvious. Maybe for some people it is effortless. Maybe there is some innate character involved. But as long as we are living in a system that floods us with images and ideas about what beauty is I think we need to make some effort to check ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tish and I had a discussion last week about physical appearance and cultural attitudes. I then briefly posted about it and quoted from an article I&#8217;d read in the NY Times. Tish was able to access the article by Harriet McBryde Johnson elsewhere. Tish then contemplated the article and a movie she watched. Here&#8217;s an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","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=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12814,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/12814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}