{"id":24862,"date":"2017-11-13T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24862"},"modified":"2017-11-13T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T02:45:17","slug":"meet-the-teen-who-discovered-the-secret-of-social-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/11\/13\/meet-the-teen-who-discovered-the-secret-of-social-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Teen Who Discovered the Secret of Social Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Psychology Today<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/happiness-and-the-pursuit-leadership\/201711\/meet-the-teen-who-discovered-the-secret-social\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meet the Teen Who Discovered the Secret of Social Capital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    Brainteaser: Two children are being bullied.<br \/>\n    One child breaks down crying.<br \/>\n    The other child kicks her tormenter in the shin.<br \/>\n    Which one continues to be bullied?<br \/>\n    Hint: it\u2019s simpler than you think.*\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer to this brainteaser is at the end of the article.  I have read a few comments that some people were bothered by the question and the answer.  I thought it was somewhat profound, myself.  I wondered if the people who were bothered really got the point of the article.  See what you think.<\/p>\n<p>As an adult, I have known children who have suffered with this type of problem, and I have never found a satisfactory answer to give them. This article gives me some new avenues to think about.<\/p>\n<p>The article also has a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sh7XFCysTr4\" class=\"ext\" target=\"_blank\">TEDx Teen talk<\/a> Natalie Hampton.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/sh7XFCysTr4?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychology Today has the article Meet the Teen Who Discovered the Secret of Social Capital. Brainteaser: Two children are being bullied. One child breaks down crying. The other child kicks her tormenter in the shin. Which one continues to be bullied? Hint: it\u2019s simpler than you think.* The answer to this brainteaser is at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24864,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24862\/revisions\/24864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}