I like to think I’m a pretty open minded and forgiving person.<\/p>\n
Ok, you can stop laughing now.\u00a0 I said I like to think<\/strong><\/em> that I am.\u00a0 We all know that our internal views of ourselves aren’t always the most accurate.<\/p>\n That said I opened the paper this morning and saw this article: Poppy Funds Pilfered<\/a>.\u00a0 While Mr. Torrie thinks that this type of theft is occurring due to ‘lack of education”, I’m more inclined to believe that it occurs because people are so self-centred and in continual search of immediate gratification that they can’t even be bothered to attempt to understand the concept that there are those far more worthy and in need for whom those proceeds were originally intended.<\/p>\n I was disgusted last year when similar occurances happened.\u00a0 I am equally mortified this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Something has to start changing in society.\u00a0 I’m really not liking the road we’re walking down now…<\/p>\n Crossposted on my blog at\u00a0Dust My Broom<\/a><\/p>\n Technorati Tags: vet<\/a>, edmonton<\/a>, remembrance day<\/a>, poppy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like to think I’m a pretty open minded and forgiving person. Ok, you can stop laughing now.\u00a0 I said I like to think that I am.\u00a0 We all know that our internal views of ourselves aren’t always the most accurate. That said I opened the paper this morning and saw this article: Poppy Funds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-soldier-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}