{"id":14343,"date":"2014-02-16T05:13:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T05:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/16\/insidiousxsilver-iamthefirechild-quietly\/"},"modified":"2014-02-16T05:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T05:13:34","slug":"insidiousxsilver-iamthefirechild-quietly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/16\/insidiousxsilver-iamthefirechild-quietly\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/insidiousxsilver.tumblr.com\/post\/76809054480\/iamthefirechild-quietly-do-you-know\">insidiousxsilver<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamthefirechild.tumblr.com\/post\/76808512191\/insidiousxsilver-iamthefirechild-like-not\">iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>Quietly, \u201cDo you know, courage is not being without fear. It\u2019s acting despite that fear. I suspect you find that easy in the heat of the moment, yes? When you don\u2019t have to think. But when someone you care about is hurting, you worry over everything. You\u2019re always unsure if what you\u2019ve done is right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/82f6ce7bff41dd7f2cfa457a13a40191\/tumblr_inline_n12o9mTHNr1rs8qze.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The way that I was raised has a completely different way of describing courage. \u00a0But I think I like yours better. \u00a0<strike> \u00a0\u00a0<\/strike>Actually that\u2019s pretty accurate. \u00a0I\u2019m always worrying about whether what I\u2019ve done has actually helped more people than it&#8217;s hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/25cc4107f9257106e7d22770ab09b02d\/tumblr_inline_n12ofd1r4e1s8973o.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;One of my favourite books has a fun way of putting it: &#8216;we are never given to know the count of the living&#8217;. It means, you can&#8217;t know the good you&#8217;ve done. Help is so &#8230; subtle. Like dropping a pebble into a pond &#8212; you can see the ripples on the surface, but you have no idea what it changes underneath.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>insidiousxsilver: iamthefirechild: Quietly, \u201cDo you know, courage is not being without fear. It\u2019s acting despite that fear. I suspect you find that easy in the heat of the moment, yes? When you don\u2019t have to think. But when someone you care about is hurting, you worry over everything. You\u2019re always unsure if what you\u2019ve done &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/02\/16\/insidiousxsilver-iamthefirechild-quietly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,835,1405,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}