{"id":623,"date":"2015-02-21T19:21:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=623"},"modified":"2015-02-21T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T00:21:13","slug":"unless-someone-cares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Unless someone cares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we watched a Disney movie, <em>&#8220;The LORAX.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 It is based on a story written by Dr. Seuss.\u00a0 The movie is about a young boy named Ted who\u00a0is trying to find a live Truffula tree to impress a girl that he fancies.\u00a0 Some years earlier, a young entrepreneur, the Once-ler, had\u00a0hewn down an entire forest of Truffula trees in\u00a0his quest to produce\u00a0Thneeds, a versatile product knitted from the foliage of the trees.\u00a0 With the forest reduced to a wasteland, everyone resorts to living in an enclosed community, Thneedville, which is completely artificial.\u00a0 Ted journeys outside of Thneedville to find the Once-ler, who lives in isolation in the wasteland that he had\u00a0created.\u00a0 After being put to a test, the Once-ler entrusts Ted with the last Truffula tree seed to plant in the center of\u00a0Thneedville, against the opposition of all who lived there.\u00a0 The word &#8220;UNLESS&#8221;\u00a0was etched in a stone left behind by the Lorax, the guardian of the forest, after its destruction.\u00a0 At the end of the movie, the forest is restored because of Ted&#8217;s efforts.\u00a0 The following quote by Dr. Seuss preceded the credits, <em>&#8220;UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that true about Christianity, spreading the Gospel, leading others to Christ, living out your faith?\u00a0 Unless someone cares enough to do it, it&#8217;s not going to get done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, we watched a Disney movie, &#8220;The LORAX.&#8221;\u00a0 It is based on a story written by Dr. Seuss.\u00a0 The movie is about a young boy named Ted who\u00a0is trying to find a live Truffula tree to impress a girl that he fancies.\u00a0 Some years earlier, a young entrepreneur, the Once-ler, had\u00a0hewn down an entire&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/?p=623\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45],"tags":[79],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiansurvey.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}