{"id":847,"date":"2024-07-01T18:36:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T17:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/?p=847"},"modified":"2024-07-04T21:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T20:57:37","slug":"reworking-kiplings-if-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/2024\/07\/01\/reworking-kiplings-if-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Reworking Kipling&#8217;s If For 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you do as your parents\/teacher\/partner\/boss say, rather than do what you know to be right,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you often lose, even small losses, and pass that loss on to others with anger,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe societal fashions like they are the Gospel, yet you flip from one to the next,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you won&#8217;t take a stand on your own, even though you are right, for fear of being ostracized,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>if you acquiesce to mental and physical thieves, while your peers look at you in disbelief,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you parrot the media narratives, even when you know they are lies and propaganda,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you comply with bullies, even when you know you could stand up to them and win,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you identify your character with a religion, yet ignore the wrongs that religion has done,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t break the law, even if though you know it is partisan and immoral,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you support a corrupt self serving government, that always takes more and gives less,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you cheer for war, when the cause is fabricated and untrue, and you know it will kill many,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve given up on your dreams, and simply live as a Nihilist,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then my son you will have failed, and what&#8217;s more, you will be a fool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you do as your parents\/teacher\/partner\/boss say, rather than do what you know to be right, If you often lose, even small losses, and pass that loss on to others<a href=\"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/2024\/07\/01\/reworking-kiplings-if-for-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reworking Kipling&#8217;s If For 2024<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.closertogod.net\/C2G3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}