{"id":1201,"date":"2009-06-06T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:28:29","slug":"compromise_vs_d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/compromise_vs_d.html","title":{"rendered":"Compromise vs Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Compromise, eh? Isn&#8217;t it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and save the world. Then you get a little bit older, maybe Little Bee&#8217;s age, and you realize that some of the world&#8217;s badness is inside you, that maybe you&#8217;re a part of it. And then you get a little bit older still, and a bit more comfortable, and you start wondering whether that badness you&#8217;ve seen in yourself is really all that bad at all. You start talking about ten percent.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Maybe that&#8217;s just developing as a person, Sarah.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I sighed and looked out at Little Bee.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Well,&#8221; I said. &#8220;Maybe this is a developing world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>-from &#8220;Little Bee&#8221; by Chris Cleave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Compromise, eh? Isn&#8217;t it sad, growing up? You start off like my Charlie. You start off thinking you can kill all the baddies and save the world. Then you get a little bit older, maybe Little Bee&#8217;s age, and you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2009\/06\/compromise_vs_d.html\">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":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-lit_quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}