{"id":14931,"date":"2008-11-02T15:34:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T23:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/article-pointed-out-act-of-joyful-kindness\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T23:05:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T06:05:31","slug":"article-pointed-out-act-of-joyful-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/article-pointed-out-act-of-joyful-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Article pointed out act of joyful kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Kent Reporter\u2019s Oct. 17 online article, \u201cWe are our brother\u2019s keeper? Kent merchant aids homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What a pleasant article about two people pursuing their values, an acknowledged win-win. It\u2019s lovely to see people enjoying their life and helping others in a way that makes them happy too.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think that\u2019s being anyone\u2019s \u201ckeeper\u201d &#8211; that\u2019s being rational in working toward your own happiness. I think Ayn Rand was eloquent on this point when she described the confusion around \u201caltruism\u201d (www.aynrandlexicon.com\/lexicon\/altruism.html).<\/p>\n<p>Being joyously kind is very different from being self-sacrificing or duty-bound in any way.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rachel Miner<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Kent Reporter\u2019s Oct. 17 online article, \u201cWe are our brother\u2019s keeper? Kent merchant aids homeless.\u201d<br \/>\nWhat a pleasant article about two people pursuing their values, an acknowledged win-win. It\u2019s lovely to see people enjoying their life and helping others in a way that makes them happy too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14931"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}