{"id":24044,"date":"2016-08-25T01:14:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=24044"},"modified":"2016-08-25T01:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T17:18:11","slug":"a-divine-discontent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=24044","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;divine discontent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In his NDR \u00a0speech PM said someone asked him if God were to offer him three wishes for Sg, what would he wish for Sgpreans. He said he wished for us to have a \u201c<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">divine discontent<\/span>\u201d. \u00a0I find this phrase intriguing and wonder why no journalist has commented on it. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PM explained that he wanted Sgpreans to always be not quite satisfied with what we have and to be driven to do better. But why did he use this phrase (divine discontent)? It is not easy to relate to. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PM\u2019s\u00a0 speech is very inspiring and patriotic, but when he spoke about\u00a0 his succession plans &#8211; I hope he would lead Sg for another\u00a0 ten years at least.\u00a0 Meanwhile the emphasis on entrepreneurship \u2013 that is the way for Sg to go<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The other wish of PM&#8217;s was for us to be able to \u201ccount our blessings\u201d. Spot on!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24045\" src=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/appreciation-100x100.png\" alt=\"appreciation\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/strong>We are blessed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Back to \u201cdivine discontent\u201d \u2013 reminds me of \u201cthe winter of discontent\u201d (Richard III)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his NDR \u00a0speech PM said someone asked him if God were to offer him three wishes for Sg, what would he wish for Sgpreans. He said he wished for us to have a \u201cdivine discontent\u201d. \u00a0I find this phrase intriguing and wonder why no journalist has commented on it. PM explained that he wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=24044\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A &#8220;divine discontent&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-24044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections","tag-ndr-speech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24047,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24044\/revisions\/24047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}