{"id":8729,"date":"2010-05-01T20:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2021-06-03T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T15:02:40","slug":"manvotional-to-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/character\/manhood\/manvotional-to-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Manvotional: To Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8730 size-full\" title=\"Attempt\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/\/2010\/02\/Attempt.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage man riding bicycle in ground.\" width=\"302\" height=\"235\"\/>To Risk<\/h3>\n<p>To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.<br \/>\nTo weep is to risk appearing sentimental.<br \/>\nTo reach out is to risk involvement,<br \/>\nTo expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.<br \/>\nTo place your ideas and<br \/>\ndreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.<br \/>\nTo love is to risk not being loved in return,<br \/>\nTo live is to risk dying,<br \/>\nTo hope is to risk despair,<br \/>\nTo try is to risk failure.<br \/>\nBut risks must be taken because<br \/>\nthe greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.<br \/>\nThe person who risks nothing, does nothing,<br \/>\nhas nothing, is nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip to Scott Brenner for this Manvotional selection.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Risk To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out is to risk involvement, To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,42272],"tags":[42295],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-manhood","tag-manvotionals"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Attempt-302x230.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729","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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125322,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/125322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}