{"id":13972,"date":"2014-10-25T02:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-25T09:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13972"},"modified":"2014-10-25T02:37:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T09:37:57","slug":"personal-update10252014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/25\/personal-update10252014\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Update&ndash;10\/25\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 187.&#160; I didn\u2019t get moving today until around 2 PM, far too late to have to have time to do research.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s Victims Impact meeting in prison was quite successful.&#160; We had around one hundred of my guys, three crime victims, and twenty college student observers,&#160; I gave the closing presentation on how people can learn to become perpetrators as victims.&#160; I explained that being victimized is a reason for criminal acts, but not an excuse for them.&#160; Being victimized can damage people so severely that their bitterness festers, until they are overcome with anger and despair.&#160; However, even though the damage is not the victims\u2019 fault, it is the victims\u2019 responsibility to repair themselves, getting whatever help they need to do so.&#160; If they fail to do so, and victimize others, that is their responsibility.&#160; Then I talked about the the importance of having opportunities in prison for prisoners to learn to repair themselves, so we can all share a common goal to prevent the creation of new victims.&#160; It was well received by all.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">However, I was worried.&#160; See below. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 4:17 (average 5:32).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2014-10-25-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1025CartoonTCCagedAgaqin\" style=\"display: inline\" alt=\"1025CartoonTCCagedAgaqin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1025CartoonTCCagedAgaqin.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 187.&#160; I didn\u2019t get moving today until around 2 PM, far too late to have to have time to do research.&#160; Yesterday\u2019s Victims Impact meeting in prison was quite successful.&#160; We had around one hundred of my guys, three crime victims, and twenty college student observers,&#160; I gave the closing <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/25\/personal-update10252014\/' class='excerpt-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":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}