{"id":2183,"date":"2013-04-08T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T04:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=2183"},"modified":"2017-08-27T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T12:06:47","slug":"character-the-struggle-of-realizing-ones-ideal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/character-the-struggle-of-realizing-ones-ideal\/","title":{"rendered":"Character: the struggle of realizing one\u2019s Ideal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ideal is not character \u2013 it is simply a coherent whole \u2013 resolving within itself \u2013 in its own system of internal axioms and postulates \u2013 the entire set of dichotomies and possibilities inherent in that ideal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Character represents the struggle of realizing that ideal. Character is the by-product of the struggle for realization of an ideal. It is of the substance of ideas, principles, and the energy of transformation of the ideas and principles into application and attitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Character therefore is the ideal when \u201ctested\u201d by life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Character, put another way, is the measure of robustness, of strength and stability, of complete acceptance of the demands of the ideal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Character is the scaffolding in which an ideal is held firm and integral in the face of a fragmented existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Character is the ideal when \u201ctested\u201d by life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[227,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}