{"id":9423,"date":"2018-06-27T00:33:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/?p=9423"},"modified":"2018-06-27T00:33:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T06:33:54","slug":"if-you-want-to-change-the-world-change-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/if-you-want-to-change-the-world-change-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Want To Change The World, Change Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u201cWhen I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I found I couldn&#8217;t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn&#8217;t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 120px;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 -Unknown monk around 1100 AD<\/p>\n<p>If we want to change the world we&#8217;ve got to focus on changing ourselves!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Be the change you wish to see in the world.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211; Gandhi<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have an amazing day!<\/p>\n<p>~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn&#8217;t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn&#8217;t change the town and as an older man, I tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,501,500,46,16310,18109,18111,18110,253,18112,4349,244,18113,152,629,6474,11178,53,27,112,149],"class_list":["post-9423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-be-the-change","tag-be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-teh-world","tag-change-a-family","tag-change-a-nation","tag-change-the-world","tag-change-yourself","tag-gandhi","tag-grateful","tag-i-wanted-to-change-the-world","tag-impact","tag-inspiration","tag-leave-a-legacy","tag-make-an-impact","tag-motivation","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9423"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9423\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}