{"id":24718,"date":"2011-01-20T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T13:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/20\/elizabeth-lesser-take-the-othe\/"},"modified":"2011-01-20T13:11:51","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T13:11:51","slug":"elizabeth-lesser-take-the-othe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/elizabeth-lesser-take-the-othe\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Lesser: Take &#8220;the Other&#8221; to lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about this &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them &#8220;the mystic&#8221; and &#8220;the warrior&#8221;) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other. She shares a simple way to begin real dialogue &#8212; by going to lunch with someone who doesn&#8217;t agree with you, and asking them three questions to find out what&#8217;s really in their hearts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/ElizabethLesser_2010W-medium.flv&#038;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/TedTalks-1609.embed_thumbnail.jpg&#038;vw=432&#038;vh=240&#038;ap=0&#038;ti=1052&#038;introDuration=15330&#038;adDuration=4000&#038;postAdDuration=830&#038;adKeys=talk=elizabeth_lesser_take_the_other_to_lunch;year=2010;theme=celebrating_tedwomen;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TEDWomen;&#038;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about this &#8230; There&#8217;s an angry divisive tension in the air that threatens to make modern politics impossible. Elizabeth Lesser explores the two sides of human nature within us (call them &#8220;the mystic&#8221; and &#8220;the warrior&#8221;) that can be harnessed to elevate the way we treat each other. She shares a simple &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/elizabeth-lesser-take-the-othe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elizabeth Lesser: Take &#8220;the Other&#8221; to lunch<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6qG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}