{"id":2016,"date":"2011-12-19T21:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homesteademporium.wordpress.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2011-12-19T21:53:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T21:53:20","slug":"loss-suffering-grieving-and-our-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/loss-suffering-grieving-and-our-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Loss, suffering, grieving, and our society."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion going on around the internet about the Duggar&#8217;s and the loss of their most recent baby girl who died before she could be born.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not in the mood to discuss people&#8217;s personal opinion&#8217;s on the Duggars, how many children they have, their belief&#8217;s, etc.. However, what I am in the mood to say is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got something negative to say about a family who is suffering a loss, zip your lips and sit on your hands!<\/p>\n<p>I understand some people do not believe this baby was a &#8216;baby&#8217;. Fine, use that as your reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>I understand some people do not believe anyone should have so many kids. Fine, use that as your reasoning.<\/p>\n<p>However, EVERY PERSON in society SHOULD understand that if you have even <em><strong>one<\/strong><\/em> small ounce of maturity and compassion within you, that when someone <em><strong>FEELS<\/strong><\/em> loss, you don&#8217;t stomp on them, you don&#8217;t ridicule them, you don&#8217;t say nasty things about them.<\/p>\n<p>You come alongside, and offer support. OR, simply keep your mouth shut, or sit on those fingers of yours.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not that hard, AND, it&#8217;s as simple as choosing to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t say something nice, don&#8217;t say anything at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A family is grieving.<\/strong> It doesn&#8217;t matter what you feel or what you think about that family, or their loss, as human&#8217;s, it&#8217;s our responsibility to show compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, how else can we expect our children to grow up and be a compassionate society?<\/p>\n<p>Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of discussion going on around the internet about the Duggar&#8217;s and the loss of their most recent baby girl who died before she could be born. I&#8217;m not in the mood to discuss people&#8217;s personal opinion&#8217;s on the Duggars, how many children they have, their belief&#8217;s, etc.. However, what I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/19\/loss-suffering-grieving-and-our-society\/\">Read more<i class=\"fa fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[146,198,386,404],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-heart-of-this-woman","tag-compassion","tag-duggars","tag-large-families","tag-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesteademporium.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}