{"id":3865,"date":"2014-05-20T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2014-05-20T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:02:52","slug":"reciprocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/reciprocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reciprocation."},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that love makes the world go around, and in a way they are correct. However, to be fully correct perhaps the saying should say, \u201cReciprocated love makes the world go around<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reciprocation requires more than a single participant. Everything is life is reciprocal, we begin teaching this lesson to our children at a very young age, and hopefully we never stop teaching them, and ourselves, that the act of receiving is improved by the act of giving.<\/p>\n

The lesson doesn\u2019t seem tough, yet so many either forget it or grow to believe that they should receive a little more than they give. Think about that for a moment and you\u2019ll realize this thinking inevitably leads to imbalance. If everyone takes just a little more than they receive, who are they taking it from?<\/p>\n

For someone to gain, another must give.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Give as much as you get, and balance will return to our chronically unbalanced world.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to the reason for this post. I recently joined a Book Club that goes by the Twitter hashtag #RaveReviewsBookClub<\/strong><\/em>. The unique premise of this club is that in order to become a member, and remain a member in good standing, you must read and review the works of other members.<\/p>\n

And there it is. A book club where you do for others, and others will do for you. The essence of reciprocation.<\/p>\n

If you are either a writer or a reader, please consider joining this book club<\/a>. The club has a wide range of great works by a growing number of independent authors. Whatever your personal preference might be Rave Reviews Book Club has something for you.<\/p>\n

Tempted? Great, then click this link<\/a>, join the club, visit the blogs and when you\u2019re done vote for the post you enjoy most.<\/p>\n

Let the reciprocation begin!<\/p>\n

{P.S. I would be honored if you mentioned me as your sponsor should you decide to join!\u00a0 I would be doubly honored if you decided to review my work, “Beltamar’s War<\/a>” as part of your membership dues, however that decision I leave entirely to you.\u00a0 Good reading!}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say that love makes the world go around, and in a way they are correct. However, to be fully correct perhaps the saying should say, \u201cReciprocated love makes the world go around.\u201d Reciprocation requires more than a single participant. Everything is life is reciprocal, we begin teaching this lesson to our children at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,342],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-book-club","tag-ravereviewsbookclub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}