{"id":20115,"date":"2011-09-10T21:36:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T02:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=20115"},"modified":"2021-06-03T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:52:16","slug":"manvotional-in-an-age-of-fops-and-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-in-an-age-of-fops-and-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: In an Age of Fops and Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In an Age of Fops and Toys<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>By: Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an age of fops and toys,<br \/>\nWanting wisdom, void of right,<br \/>\nWho shall nerve heroic boys<br \/>\nTo hazard all in Freedom&#8217;s fight,\u2014<br \/>\nBreak sharply off their jolly games,<br \/>\nForsake their comrades gay<br \/>\nAnd quit proud homes and youthful dames<br \/>\nFor famine, toil and fray?<br \/>\nYet on the nimble air benign<br \/>\nSpeed nimbler messages,<br \/>\nThat waft the breath of grace divine<br \/>\nTo hearts in sloth and ease.<br \/>\nSo nigh is grandeur to our dust,<br \/>\nSo near is God to man,<br \/>\nWhen Duty whispers low, <em>Thou must,<\/em><br \/>\nThe youth replies, <em>I can.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an Age of Fops and Toys By: Ralph Waldo Emerson In an age of fops and toys, Wanting wisdom, void of right, Who shall nerve heroic boys To hazard all in Freedom&#8217;s fight,\u2014 Break sharply off their jolly games, Forsake their comrades gay And quit proud homes and youthful dames For famine, toil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127799,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20115\/revisions\/127799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20115"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}