{"id":2565,"date":"2023-10-17T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2023-10-17T02:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T02:00:41","slug":"evensong-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231016_215855-1025x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231016_215855-1025x698.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231016_215855-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231016_215855-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231016_215855-1536x1047.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/PSX_20231016_215855.jpg 1751w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When a person does something wrong, he should admit his guilt, pay whatever penalty he owes, then move on and try to do better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The person who did wrong but won&#8217;t admit it still pays \u2014 often physically and mentally \u2014 but everyone else pays, too, from having to listen to all the guilty one&#8217;s lies and whining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The honest person can live with a clearer conscience and stands a better chance of regaining the respect of others than the liar who tries to get away with every damn thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A normal human being knows the difference between right and wrong, and what they need to do. Only a horse&#8217;s ass or regular ol&#8217; jackass has to be forced to do what\u2019s right all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That old fool will be sorry in the long run; and we who do what\u2019s right will be all the happier and all the healthier, and we will be respected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a person does something wrong, he should admit his guilt, pay whatever penalty he owes, then move on and try to do better. The person who did wrong but won&#8217;t admit it still pays \u2014 often physically and mentally \u2014 but everyone else pays, too, from having to listen to all the guilty one&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2565\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EVENSONG 32<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}