{"id":16776,"date":"2015-05-27T13:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T05:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=16776"},"modified":"2022-11-04T23:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T15:00:45","slug":"righteousness-wandering-thought-235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2015\/05\/righteousness-wandering-thought-235\/","title":{"rendered":"Righteousness: Wandering Thought #235"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-16777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?resize=317%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?resize=38%2C38&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/133.jpg?resize=184%2C184&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/>Wandering Thought #235: Righteousness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be righteous is to say and do the right things out of compassion and wisdom for others. To be self-righteous is to say and do the wrong things out of self-centredness and delusion for oneself.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky part is that before others, the self-righteous can be disguised as the righteous. The even trickier part is that before oneself, the self-righteous can mistaken themselves as being righteous. This is how personal justification of evil begins. (When the motivations are wrong in spirit, all actions are wrong in spirit.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandering Thought #235: Righteousness To be righteous is to say and do the right things out of compassion and wisdom&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[713,847],"class_list":["post-16776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-righteousness","tag-wandering-thought","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}