{"id":2524,"date":"2014-04-30T21:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2014-04-30T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T19:05:55","slug":"high-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/04\/30\/high-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"High Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The notion that \u201cyou\u2019re either part of the problem or part of the solution\u201d is an impossible standard that impedes actual social progress, which always happens incrementally. A much better way to make a difference is to contribute as little as possible to the problem while contributing as much as you can to the solution.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to hold yourself and others to a high standard, but when people try to do good and you punish them for not doing enough, it makes it hard for them to try again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/blog.maxistentialism.com\/post\/83435217416\/patrick-i-loved-your-panel-about-internet-harassment'>Max Temkin<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.maxistentialism.com\/post\/84273846968\/pwnmeal-extreme-gaming-oatmeal-pwnmeal-extreme\">Pwnmeal Extreme Gaming Oatmeal<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/waxy.org\/\">waxy.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notion that \u201cyou\u2019re either part of the problem or part of the solution\u201d is an impossible standard that impedes actual social progress, which always happens incrementally. A much better way to make a difference is to contribute as little as possible to the problem while contributing as much as you can to the solution. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2014\/04\/30\/high-standards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High Standards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2529,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}