{"id":169,"date":"2013-01-20T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quotemyt.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-01-20T01:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T06:00:05","slug":"jefferson-in-matters-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2013\/01\/jefferson-in-matters-of-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson, In Matters of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock<\/span>.” – Thomas Jefferson<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

As my wife can tell you I pay little, to no attention to fashion or style in any way.\u00a0 I am not concerned with what other people think about how I dress or what they think of my actions, all of that is driven by my principles.<\/p>\n

These guideposts have dictated how I live my life. It wasn’t always this way, at a much younger age, I cared little about how I treated others and cared a lot about what other people thought about me. I remember worrying about the clothes I wore and how my ‘friends’ acted toward me.\u00a0 I remember being embarrassed because I only had regular blue jeans and my classmates made a public note of it.\u00a0 I was voted as the boy with all the same color blue jeans.\u00a0 I remember getting teased about shoes and shorts that I wore.\u00a0 I took my first job because I wanted to have money to get the clothes and shoes I wanted<\/em>.\u00a0 Now, please don’t misunderstand this, my parents did a very good job at providing clothing for us [I am the oldest of 6]; and we didn’t want for the basics.\u00a0 I wanted for nicer shoes, Nike’s instead of what ever was on sale at the local K-Mart or PX [that would be Post Exchange].<\/p>\n

I don’t know when I stopped worrying about what others thought, I just remember that it stopped being important to me. I wanted my clothing to reflect a neat and clean appearance.\u00a0 When this change happened I also realized that I was working to treat others better even if they didn’t meet social norms. I found that being kind to others brought me happiness and I enjoyed the service. Now, I still like nice things and while I am not a clothes horse; I am still willing to pay a good price for a good product.\u00a0 I am no longer swayed by style or the opinions of others.\u00a0 I live according to principles and wear clothes that reflect how I think and feel about myself.<\/p>\n

iron wil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson As my wife can tell you I pay little, to no attention to fashion or style in any way.\u00a0 I am not concerned with what other people think about how I dress or what they think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[69,70,71,72,73],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-appearance","tag-clothing","tag-principle","tag-style","tag-thomas-jefferson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","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=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}