{"id":45209,"date":"2014-07-21T01:15:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/koinonia_my_advice_to_students_james_merrick_says_read_outside_your_comfort\/"},"modified":"2014-07-21T01:15:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T01:15:07","slug":"koinonia_my_advice_to_students_james_merrick_says_read_outside_your_comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45209","title":{"rendered":"(Koinonia) My Advice to Students \u201d\u201d James Merrick Says, &#34;Read Outside Your Comfort Zone&#34;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Merrick shares, \u201cWhat I found helpful is to read those people who are being discussed and try and understand what they\u2019re saying,\u201d\u009d for two reasons:<\/p>\n<p>    You become a better thinker by honing your argument.<br \/>\n    You become a more generous, thoughtful thinker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koinoniablog.net\/2014\/07\/my-advice-to-students-james-merrick-says-read-outside-your-comfort-zone.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Merrick shares, \u201cWhat I found helpful is to read those people who are being discussed and try and understand what they\u2019re saying,\u201d\u009d for two reasons: You become a better thinker by honing your argument. You become a more generous,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45209\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,111,117,129,108,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-education","category-philosophy","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}