{"id":524,"date":"2014-06-18T18:35:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/?p=524"},"modified":"2015-01-12T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T18:23:01","slug":"family-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/2014\/06\/18\/family-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;There may be differences in lifestyle &#8211; some of it by choice, others by necessity. \u00a0But for us to somehow draw moral skirts around us and say that we&#8217;re holier than someone else because of their family circumstances is a lose-lose situation. \u00a0[It] doesn&#8217;t make me feel any better, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t make you feel any better either. \u00a0So I think that&#8217;s not the issue. \u00a0The issue is that although people&#8217;s family circumstances might differ, overwhelmingly we are convinced that we ought to do right by children. \u00a0That&#8217;s the point that brings us together.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Ernest L. Boyer, when asked about &#8220;family values&#8221; during an interview on the Carnegie Foundation publication &#8220;<em>Ready to Learn: A Mandate for the Nation&#8221;<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Sometimes you&#8217;re watching an interview with Ernest L. Boyer and are struck by a profound statement and need to rewind and pause multiple times to jot it all down, because the words still hold so much meaning today.*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There may be differences in lifestyle &#8211; some of it by choice, others by necessity. \u00a0But for us to somehow draw moral skirts around us and say that we&#8217;re holier than someone else because of their family circumstances is a lose-lose situation. \u00a0[It] doesn&#8217;t make me feel any better, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t make you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1349],"tags":[1306,1430,1338,5417],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-ready-to-learn","tag-ernest-l-boyer","tag-family-values","tag-quote","tag-ready-to-learn","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.messiah.edu\/boyerarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}