{"id":4125,"date":"2025-02-15T14:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T22:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2025-02-22T14:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T22:02:05","slug":"balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=4125","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a citizen, I feel a duty to engage in national politics. \u00a0I stay informed, but I know there&#8217;s little I can do and fretting about it depletes me. \u00a0As a private person, I have fulfilling work to do, satisfying relationship with friends and family, and activities that bring me pleasure. \u00a0It strengthens me. \u00a0It would be wrong to neglect my duty as a citizen, so rather than feeling &#8220;torn&#8221; between the two, which implies severing the public from the private, I seek balance, a point where my contributions as a citizen are made valuable because I&#8217;ve maximized my personal power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a citizen, I feel a duty to engage in national politics. \u00a0I stay informed, but I know there&#8217;s little&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/?p=4125\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Balance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministers-messages"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhmcd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}