{"id":155,"date":"2010-07-21T20:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/?p=155"},"modified":"2010-07-21T20:28:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T03:28:01","slug":"karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in Karma.  Oh, I don&#8217;t know if I would really call it that, exactly. I feel if you do something good, it usually comes back to you.  If you do something bad, it can come back to you as well.  In a Christian sense, I believe  you &#8220;reap what you sow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I try so hard to be ethical and honest and nice in my dealings with singers and musicians and anyone I have to work with regularly. It doesn&#8217;t take any special effort and it can make a difference.  &#8220;Good will out&#8221; has happened to me over and over.<\/p>\n<p>In my musical life, I try to do good by keeping my eye out for other people&#8211;if I hear of a job that would be perfect for someone I know, I tell them.  Or recommend them&#8211;even those who I know don&#8217;t like me.  I think if I do, good will be returned to me.  And, in many ways, it has. In my travels, I try to never say anything bad if I can help it, at least not in public.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps others feel differently, but I will always take the high road if I can. And if I can&#8217;t, I try to be as kind as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in Karma. Oh, I don&#8217;t know if I would really call it that, exactly. I feel if you do something good, it usually comes back to you. If you do something bad, it can come back to you as well. In a Christian sense, I believe you &#8220;reap what you sow&#8221;. This is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/?p=155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midwestmotet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}