{"id":549,"date":"2012-12-08T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/?p=549"},"modified":"2012-12-08T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T14:28:45","slug":"stuck-in-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/12-08-2012\/stuck-in-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, there was a story about creating gender neutral toys. I didn&#8217;t get to see the whole story, but I have heard about the concept before. Toys, clothes (pink appearing in the men&#8217;s department), why are we trying to make everyone equal in all things?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, God counts us as equals, that is not what I am referring to. Why do so many try to even out the differences? Does giving everyone a trophy really work? If I was in a sports league, and got a trophy at the end of the year, I wouldn&#8217;t really feel that good about it. I&#8217;m not good at sports. There are some things I can do because of my size, but I am far from being an athlete, much less an award winner. There needs to be a recognition of the differences, and the fact that some people can, and others cannot.<\/p>\n<p>In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul said there are different gifts, but the same Spirit. If God said it&#8217;s alright for one person to be good at something, but not all things. And that people won&#8217;t excel at everything they try, why should we work at changing that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, there was a story about creating gender neutral toys. I didn&#8217;t get to see the whole story, but I have heard about the concept before. Toys, clothes (pink appearing in the men&#8217;s department), why are we trying to make everyone equal in all things? Yes, God counts us as equals, that is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grfxbox.com\/thb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}