{"id":1872,"date":"2026-04-09T08:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2026-04-09T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T14:34:16","slug":"secretarys-corner-72-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/secretarys-corner-72-april-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Secretary&#8217;s Corner 72 &#8211; April 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a delayed reaction to something last that happened last week, but I have a bone to pick with whoever started April Fool\u2019s&#8230; Why? Just&#8230;why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the infamous day itself, I was able to remain unscathed by the rampant tricks that were afoot all day&#8230;because on the day, you sort of have a subconscious knowing that something\u2019s up. But then&#8230;the next day comes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you suddenly forget what just went down, (at least I do) and find yourself happening upon information from the day before. I saw many things I was heartily confused by, or didn\u2019t give a second thought about believing, only to realize MUCH LATER that they were not real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s irritating! I don\u2019t like being catfished for weeks by old information! It gives me trust issues!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To make things worse, when REAL information DOES come out on that unfortunate day&#8230;I DON\u2019T BELIEVE IT! (I\u2019m thinking in particular of *cough cough* a certain spaceship that I wholeheartedly thought was fake for multiple days&#8230;) And then I\u2019m just even more confused!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does this all mean? Ultimately, it\u2019s not that big of a deal. It can be annoying, sure, and I think it hurts our pride when we completely fall for something fake, but it doesn\u2019t really matter in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think this points to a funny thing all people naturally do &#8211; we gripe and complain about the small things that, truth be told, <em>don\u2019t affect us that much<\/em>, but we often fail to point out the really big things that DO affect us in the long run. The things we <em>know<\/em> are blatantly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We shove that under the rug, because it\u2019s too big. We can\u2019t handle something so&#8230;important. What difference do we make? And we continue to focus on the little things that feel more within our control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But we don\u2019t need to do this. We are salt and light in a world of blandness and darkness. A little salt goes a long way, as anyone trying to stop a toddler from adding <em>more<\/em> salt to the pot has learned. A little attempt to change things can impact way more than you could ever imagine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can do a lot more than grumble about the small things in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a delayed reaction to something last that happened last week, but I have a bone to pick with whoever started April Fool\u2019s&#8230; Why? Just&#8230;why?<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/2026\/04\/secretarys-corner-72-april-9\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[163,164,13,12,165,100],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secretarys-corner","tag-aprilfools","tag-bigthings","tag-blog","tag-secretary","tag-smallthings","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.duchessmennonite.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}