{"id":2981,"date":"2010-10-17T22:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=2981"},"modified":"2010-10-17T22:56:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T06:56:56","slug":"best-line-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/best-line-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Best line of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of travel this week.  \u00a0During the time I was away in Ontario working with labour educators from a number of Canadian unions I heard a great line from a Canadian Auto Workers educator that sustains him when he is challenged while doing good work: &#8220;You don&#8217;t always have to like th emembers, but you have to love them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was reflecting on that line this week after I hosted an Open Space on Bowen Island, in my home community to provide a space for my neighbours to discuss a proposal to turn some of Bowen&#8217;s Crown Lands into a National Park.  \u00a0The proposal has received a mixed reception among islanders, but there has been some outright hostility as well.  \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bowen-island-bc.com\/forum\/read.php?1,1229014\">This week, a guy I consider a &#8220;howyadoin&#8217;?&#8221; friend, lambasted me for running a meeting that appeared to be &#8220;a ruse to appease the public.&#8221;<\/a> I informed him that I was hosting the meeting all on my own, without anyone paying me to do so that a variety of views could be heard.  \u00a0His response was still negative, but in the end, like my friend in the Auto Workers, I had to conclude you don&#8217;t have to like your fellow islanders, but you have to love them.<\/p>\n<p>And God love them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of travel this week. \u00a0During the time I was away in Ontario working with labour educators from a number of Canadian unions I heard a great line from a Canadian Auto Workers educator that sustains him when he is challenged while doing good work: &#8220;You don&#8217;t always have to like th emembers, but you have to love them.&#8221; I was reflecting on that line this week after I hosted an Open Space on Bowen Island, in my home community to provide a space for my neighbours to discuss a proposal to turn some of Bowen&#8217;s Crown Lands into a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-M5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}