{"id":1053,"date":"2020-07-14T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple4.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2023-04-09T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T11:47:36","slug":"fishing-for-the-whole-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/14\/fishing-for-the-whole-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Fishing for the whole village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Westerners, we have a specific way of thinking: we first take care of ourselves and what is \u201cleft\u201d \u2013 and usually very little is left after we have our fill \u2013 we will share with others. This is the right way \u2013 isn\u2019t it? But maybe not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a Fijian fisherman goes out to fish, the mothers from the village wish him well. He usually returns from his trip to find the mothers waiting on the shore. They take the fish he caught and distribute them throughout the village. It would be unthinkable for the fisherman to take the fish home for himself. When he goes out, he does not fish for his family; he fishes for the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Source: <em>Fishing for the village<\/em>, 2020, by Cassie Carstens &amp; George Kellerman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-background\" style=\"color:#30a7db;background-color:#edf5f8\">Life comes in stories: use this link to subscribe to occasional stories via email: <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/vfd32z4\">https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/vfd32z4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Westerners, we have a specific way of thinking: we first take care of ourselves and what is \u201cleft\u201d \u2013 and usually very little is left after we have our fill \u2013 we will share with others. This is the right way \u2013 isn\u2019t it? But maybe not. When a Fijian fisherman goes out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}