{"id":631,"date":"2017-06-29T07:01:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2017-07-01T20:28:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T19:28:58","slug":"are-pacifists-optimists-or-pessimists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/06\/are-pacifists-optimists-or-pessimists\/","title":{"rendered":"Are pacifists optimists or pessimists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1498937006261_62\" class=\"oublog-comment-details\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"oublog-comment-content\">\n<p>I was at a peace conference at the weekend.\u00a0 A full-time peace worker said &#8220;<em>Of course, you have to be an optimist to believe peace is possible<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Puzzled, I disagreed, saying &#8220;<em>In my experience, peace activists are pessimists and do what they do because they fear the worst will happen<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Some discussion followed.<\/p>\n<p>I have since worked out the difference: he was talking about employees and I was talking about volunteers.\u00a0 He could not do his job if he was pessimistic and I would have no motivation if I was optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>What you can do with that knowledge, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p>But what does it mean about me going from a peace-worker volunteer to becoming a peace sector employee?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a peace conference at the weekend.\u00a0 A full-time peace worker said &#8220;Of course, you have to be an optimist to believe peace is possible&#8220;.\u00a0 Puzzled, I disagreed, saying &#8220;In my experience, peace activists are pessimists and do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/06\/are-pacifists-optimists-or-pessimists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,35,185,231],"tags":[131,187,232],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-pacifist","category-psychology","category-volunteering","tag-pacifist","tag-psychology","tag-volunteering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}