{"id":139,"date":"2012-11-20T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T06:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quotemyt.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2012-11-20T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T06:00:28","slug":"polonius-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2012\/11\/polonius-be-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Polonius, Be True"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;<span style=\"color: #008000;\">To thy own self be true<\/span>.&#8221; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #000080;\">Polonius<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This quote is one I thought about holding on to until I had posted several other quotes and had maybe a year or two worth posts and work into it.\u00a0 I changed my mind as I sat down and started looking through my list of quotes.\u00a0 I feel really strongly about being true to oneself.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure where to begin.\u00a0 For starters, one had to start on this path by choice.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know when I started consciously and with dedication to pursue this course in my own life.\u00a0 I remember when I was about 12 or 13 my mother sat me down and gave me a talking to.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t remember much of the conversation.\u00a0 I do remember Mimi saying 2 things: 1) look around you and find those with good qualities and emulate them, and 2) every rose has it&#8217;s thorns and you don&#8217;t have to be one.\u00a0 We spoke for sometime and when we finished, I dwelt on these thoughts and have come to terms with my own struggles and personality flaws.<\/p>\n<p>Since those days, I have struggled to understand myself and what kind of person I want to be and how I want to be remembered by family, friends, and the community in which I live.\u00a0 Do I want to be remembered as a good neighbor and person or do I want to be disliked and possibly even hated?<\/p>\n<p>I decided that I wanted to be know as a kind and generous person.\u00a0 I wanted to be known as a man of integrity and honor.\u00a0 I want others to know that I can be counted on and a man my father and mother can be proud of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">ironwil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To thy own self be true.&#8221; &#8211; Polonius This quote is one I thought about holding on to until I had posted several other quotes and had maybe a year or two worth posts and work into it.\u00a0 I changed my mind as I sat down and started looking through my list of quotes.\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,28],"tags":[33,54,63,64,808],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-growth","category-personal-story","category-quote","tag-change","tag-family","tag-life","tag-polonius","tag-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}