{"id":17409,"date":"2022-01-01T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T01:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17409"},"modified":"2022-01-01T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T02:12:21","slug":"2022-01-01-we-have-obligations-not-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17409","title":{"rendered":"2022-01-01 We Have Obligations, Not Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt; The single biggest thing I learned was from an indigenous elder of Cherokee descent, Stan Rushworth, who reminded me of the difference between a Western settler mindset of &#8220;I have rights&#8221; and an indigenous mindset of &#8220;I have obligations. Instead of thinking that I am born with rights, I choose to think that I am born with obligations to serve past, present, and future generations, and the planet herself. &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Now, for a bit of humor&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17411 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fb_img_164104711734613113799725079770751502..jpg\" width=\"563\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fb_img_164104711734613113799725079770751502..jpg 563w, https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fb_img_164104711734613113799725079770751502.-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;&lt; The single biggest thing I learned was from an indigenous elder of Cherokee descent, Stan Rushworth, who reminded me of the difference between a Western settler mindset of &#8220;I have rights&#8221; and an indigenous mindset of &#8220;I have obligations. Instead of thinking that I am born with rights, I choose to think that I<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=17409\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1601,466],"tags":[1683,1682],"class_list":["post-17409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-climate-change","tag-obligations-not-rights","tag-stan-rushworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17412,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17409\/revisions\/17412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}