{"id":803,"date":"2005-03-05T00:11:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/05\/with-good-grace\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:22:47","slug":"with-good-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/03\/05\/with-good-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"With Good Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently wrote to me and one thing she said struck me as true:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was my mother&#8217;s belief that if you cared about someone, really loved them, then you didn&#8217;t ask unreasonable things of them, and you accepted their lives with good grace.  Meaning that if you invited them to a party and they said no, you didn&#8217;t ask why, and you didn&#8217;t demand, and you didn&#8217;t hold a grudge.  You didn&#8217;t make someone prove they cared about you too.  That&#8217;s what trust is, isn&#8217;t it?  I think that if you have to ask these questions, then you don&#8217;t have faith in that person, and if you have faith, you know that they have their reasons and they can still care about you too.  That make any sense?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, it does make sense.  I only wish more people could understand this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend recently wrote to me and one thing she said struck me as true: It was my mother&#8217;s belief that if you cared about someone, really loved them, then you didn&#8217;t ask unreasonable things of them, and you accepted their lives with good grace. Meaning that if you invited them to a party and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","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=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10819,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/10819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}