{"id":9656,"date":"2014-07-09T19:34:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T09:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2024-07-05T04:45:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T18:45:51","slug":"be-a-trouble-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=9656","title":{"rendered":"Be A Trouble Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BeATroubleMaker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9657\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BeATroubleMaker-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"Be A Trouble Maker\" width=\"790\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BeATroubleMaker-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/BeATroubleMaker.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nImprovement only ever occurs when a person takes action against a situation he\/she cannot tolerate by working towards creating a better replacement.<br \/>\nThis applies to your personal situation just as well as more societal situations.<br \/>\nTo those who benefit by the inequities in the status quo, those who have a vested interest financially or perceived personal or group advantage, those desiring change are trouble makers.<br \/>\nHow many times have your heard, &#8220;Don&#8217;t rock the boat!&#8221; with the usually unspoken admonition that if you do, some people could drown.<br \/>\nWell. I&#8217;m not for accidentally drowning people but a few money changer&#8217;s carts could be overturned to their detriment and everyone else&#8217;s benefit!<br \/>\nWhat are you going to do this week different from what you did last week that will improve your life and the lot of us all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvement only ever occurs when a person takes action against a situation he\/she cannot tolerate by working towards creating a better replacement. This applies to your personal situation just as well as more societal situations. To those who benefit by the inequities in the status quo, those who have a vested interest financially or perceived &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=9656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Be A Trouble Maker&#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":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54347,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/54347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}