{"id":4813,"date":"2020-01-01T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/?p=4813"},"modified":"2020-04-19T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T20:44:32","slug":"happy-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/happy-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-paragraph\">I wish you and yours all the best for 2020!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-paragraph\">If\n I had just one wish for the New Year: it would be nice to have a lot of\n good conversations. Firmly based on whatever facts available. Focusing \non the merits of the content, not on identification with any labels \nattached either to positions or to the persons holding them (now or in \nthe past). Taking the time necessary to look at things in nuance and \ndetail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-paragraph\">So often the seeming \u201cdivisiveness\u201d all around stems from a\n focus on the aspects separating positions. When focused on, a small \nditch can easily become an uncrossable chasm. Even if both sides to a \ndiscussion might agree on 98% of everything being said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-paragraph\">If we made\n a conscious effort to focus on the 98%, we might find a way to bridge \nthat last 2%. Or could simply good-naturedly agree that insofar we have a\n slightly different take, which in light of the overall alignment \ndoesn\u2019t really matter all that much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-black-color wp-block-paragraph\">Focusing on the overlap \ninstead of the gap does not make for great social media headlines, \nmorning TV snippets or clickbait. But it makes living together, working \ntogether, doing business and generally interacting so much easier.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish you and yours all the best for 2020! If I had just one wish for the New Year: it would be nice to have a lot of good conversations. Firmly based on whatever facts available. Focusing on the merits of the content, not on identification with any labels attached either to positions or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-de"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malteholthaus.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}