{"id":62200,"date":"2017-08-12T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T02:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/?p=62200"},"modified":"2021-06-02T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T02:39:42","slug":"manvotional-daily-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-daily-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: My Daily Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65418 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire.jpg\" alt=\"Painting man sitting on bed putting shoes on for work.\" width=\"600\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire.jpg 600w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-320x257.jpg 320w, https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"gstxt_hlt\">&#8220;My Daily Desire&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"gstxt_hlt\">By Thomas Dekker<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"gstxt_hlt\">To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face<\/span>; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clear mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle and kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with the weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done\u2014this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My Daily Desire&#8221; By Thomas Dekker To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clear mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-538x280.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-320x257.jpg","aesop-tiny-cover":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-400x321.jpg","aesop-character":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-200x200.jpg","aesop-collection":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-300x300.jpg","aesop-grid-image":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2017\/01\/my-daily-desire-400x321.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62200","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=62200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119905,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62200\/revisions\/119905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62200"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}