{"id":1723,"date":"2013-04-23T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T06:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.wordpress.com\/?p=1723"},"modified":"2013-04-23T08:46:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T06:46:47","slug":"interview-with-john-lynch-slaves-of-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/23\/interview-with-john-lynch-slaves-of-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with John Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>John shares with us his understanding of addiction as a form of today&#8217;s slavery. He says: &#8220;I believe that it is a form of slavery in that it takes away freedom of choice within the individual. When one is driven to act by anything that is taking away freedom of choice, then I think it is appropriate to speak of it as a form of slavery.&#8221;\u00a0<a title=\"Slaves of addiction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingforgiveness.net\/2013\/04\/anti-slavery-campaign-interviews-series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1726 alignright\" alt=\"Slaves of addiction\" src=\"http:\/\/mafrsouthernafrica.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/slaves-of-addiction1.png?resize=240%2C273\" width=\"240\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/slaves-of-addiction1.png?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mafrsaprovince.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/slaves-of-addiction1.png?resize=264%2C300&amp;ssl=1 264w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><i>He concludes the interview with wise words saying: &#8220;In reality there is \u201cno gain without pain\u201d. The only constant in our lives is change. When the addict recognizes the addiction and is willing to accept it and try to live in the present moment seeking in faith and trust in the higher power, he or she can honestly live as \u201ca wounded healer\u201d, seeking each day honesty, openness and willingness, which are the essentials of recovery.<\/i><i>&#8221;\u00a0 <a title=\"Slaves of addiction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.breathingforgiveness.net\/2013\/04\/anti-slavery-campaign-interviews-series.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John shares with us his understanding of addiction as a form of today&#8217;s slavery. He says: &#8220;I believe that it is a form of slavery in that it takes away freedom of choice within the individual. When one is driven to act by anything that is taking away freedom of choice, then I think it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,28],"tags":[57,127,1314],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-publications","tag-addiction","tag-antislavery-campaign","tag-slavery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mafrsaprovince.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}