{"id":2559,"date":"2007-12-21T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/integrity"},"modified":"2009-01-18T15:10:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T14:10:21","slug":"integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/integrity","title":{"rendered":"Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-cut text=\"Integrity\"><br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"photomanip of waterdrops or stars\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000rarzs\" \/><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">&#8220;3D Star Map&#8221; by tarotastic,<br \/>\nCreative Commons &#8220;Attribution-NonCommercial&#8221; licence at Flickr.. <\/font><\/center><br \/>\nLiving with integrity means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships.<\/li>\n<li>    Asking for what you want and need from others.<\/li>\n<li>    Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension.<\/li>\n<li>    Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.<\/li>\n<li>    Making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"offsite link to Randomhouse Author's Spotlight\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/author\/results.pperl?authorid=6628&amp;view=full_sptlght\">&#8211; Barbara De Angelis<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><b>If<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>If you can keep your head when all about you<br \/>\nAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,<br \/>\nIf you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,<br \/>\nBut make allowance for their doubting too;<br \/>\nIf you can wait and not be tired by waiting,<br \/>\nOr being lied about, don&#8217;t deal in lies,<br \/>\nOr being hated, don&#8217;t give way to hating,<br \/>\nAnd yet don&#8217;t look too good, nor talk too wise:<\/p>\n<p>If you can dream &#8211; and not make dreams your master,<br \/>\nIf you can think &#8211; and not make thoughts your aim;<br \/>\nIf you can meet with Triumph and Disaster<br \/>\nAnd treat those two impostors just the same;<br \/>\nIf you can bear to hear the truth you&#8217;ve spoken<br \/>\nTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,<br \/>\nOr watch the things you gave your life to, broken,<br \/>\nAnd stoop and build &#8217;em up with worn-out tools:<\/p>\n<p>If you can make one heap of all your winnings<br \/>\nAnd risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,<br \/>\nAnd lose, and start again at your beginnings<br \/>\nAnd never breath a word about your loss;<br \/>\nIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinew<br \/>\nTo serve your turn long after they are gone,<br \/>\nAnd so hold on when there is nothing in you<br \/>\nExcept the Will which says to them: &#8220;Hold on!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,<br \/>\nOr walk with kings &#8211; nor lose the common touch,<br \/>\nIf neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,<br \/>\nIf all men count with you, but none too much;<br \/>\nIf you can fill the unforgiving minute<br \/>\nWith sixty seconds&#8217; worth of distance run,<br \/>\nYours is the Earth and everything that&#8217;s in it,<br \/>\nAnd &#8211; which is more &#8211; you&#8217;ll be a Man, my son!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a title=\"offsite link to MegaUpload\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megaupload.com\/?d=X3JBL1FY\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"integrity icon, based on '3D Star Map' by tarotastic\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/juno_magic\/pic\/000rb94h\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<font size=\"1\">(Click me! I am a song!)<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n&#8220;Ideas and Integrities&#8221;<br \/>\nby M Coast<\/div>\n<p><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;3D Star Map&#8221; by tarotastic, Creative Commons &#8220;Attribution-NonCommercial&#8221; licence at Flickr.. Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/integrity\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,277],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junomagic","tag-advent-calendar","tag-advent-calendar-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}