{"id":7194,"date":"2017-03-09T06:39:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=7194"},"modified":"2017-03-09T06:39:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:39:03","slug":"25-qs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=7194","title":{"rendered":"25 Q&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/pete-nowicki-52585.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7195\" src=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/pete-nowicki-52585-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"pete-nowicki-52585\" width=\"654\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that the Intramuralist loves the question mark. It\u2019s the only punctuation piece that invites an answer<em> (\u2026 and we wonder why we keep conversationally shutting down one another\u2026).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With a search spanning the pages of Facebook, Forbes, Readers\u2019 Digest, and my own, etc. \u2014 recognizing that some of life\u2019s questions are oft related to the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat \u2014 I found myself pondering the following\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 especially in regard to the current socio-political climate that is less than conversational\u2026 less than respectful\u2026 less than inviting\u2026 less than good\u2026<\/p>\n<p><em>(&#8230; yes&#8230; less than good&#8230;)<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What are the questions we each must answer?<\/li>\n<li>What am I pretending not to know?<\/li>\n<li>What are my values and am I being true to them?<\/li>\n<li>What \u2014 or who \u2014 am I living for?<\/li>\n<li>In what ways am I being perceived, that I\u2019m not aware of?<\/li>\n<li>In what ways am I being deceived, that I\u2019m not aware of?<\/li>\n<li>Do I honor the authorities in my life? Am I actually willing to acknowledge authority?<\/li>\n<li>Where are my blindspots?<\/li>\n<li>What is wrong with the world?<\/li>\n<li>How can what\u2019s wrong be made right?<\/li>\n<li>Is money the root of all evil?<\/li>\n<li>What is the definition of evil?<\/li>\n<li>Where am I less than patient?<\/li>\n<li>Where am I withholding grace? From <em>whom<\/em> am I withholding grace?<\/li>\n<li>What don\u2019t I know, that I don\u2019t know?<\/li>\n<li>Would I be focusing on the same things today if I knew I was dying tomorrow?<\/li>\n<li>How would my role models act and carry themselves?<\/li>\n<li>Who is God and what does he ask of me?<\/li>\n<li>Is there anything within my control that I need to change today?<\/li>\n<li>Where have I been unkind?<\/li>\n<li>Where have I been discriminatory?<\/li>\n<li>Where have I been awful to the person who doesn\u2019t think like me?<\/li>\n<li>Who has the right \u2014 and the ability \u2014 to judge?<\/li>\n<li>Where am I being judgmental? \u2026 and\u2026<\/li>\n<li>What did I learn today?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>(\u2026 hopefully something\u2026)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Respectfully\u2026<br \/>\nAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that the Intramuralist loves the question mark. It\u2019s the only punctuation piece that invites an answer (\u2026 and we wonder why we keep conversationally shutting down one another\u2026). With a search spanning the pages of Facebook, Forbes, Readers\u2019 Digest, and my own, etc. \u2014 recognizing that some of life\u2019s questions are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=7194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;25 Q&#8217;s&#8221;<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7200,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7194\/revisions\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}