{"id":1419,"date":"2009-10-07T08:18:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T14:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/writings\/?p=289"},"modified":"2014-10-22T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:19:38","slug":"7lbs-of-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2009\/10\/7lbs-of-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"7lbs . . . of Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched <a title=\"Seven Pounds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0814314\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Pounds<\/a> last night with my SIL and it was [again] a beautiful and brilliant film.\u00a0 I have seen the movie 3 times now and still it gets me every time.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t condone suicide; but I understand the torment that Ben goes through in the progress of his decision making.<\/p>\n<p>It was very hard to see Ben arrive at the decision to take his own life so that others could live.\u00a0 He obviously viewed the deaths of 7 people as murder.\u00a0 He felt personally responsible to those individuals and the only way he could &#8216;repair&#8217; the damage is to give life to someone that is dying.\u00a0 To see Ben live and be committed to a goal and do the hard thing is amazing.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t think many people in our country understand the kind of commitment that it takes to live your principles and stick to them even if it kills you.<\/p>\n<p>This movie, despite the suicide, is easily one of my favorite movies and sits with <a title=\"HERO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0299977\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERO<\/a> and <a title=\"Remember the Titans\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0210945\/\" target=\"_blank\">Remember the Titans<\/a> as a fantastic movie of principle and living a principle centered life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched Seven Pounds last night with my SIL and it was [again] a beautiful and brilliant film.\u00a0 I have seen the movie 3 times now and still it gets me every time.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t condone suicide; but I understand the torment that Ben goes through in the progress of his decision making. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582,27],"tags":[63,344,586,535,570],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-note","tag-life","tag-movie","tag-principles","tag-responsability","tag-will-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}