{"id":6773,"date":"2013-07-23T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2016-11-15T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T11:03:39","slug":"living-a-great-life-the-choice-to-live-by-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/living-a-great-life-the-choice-to-live-by-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Role-model Leaders (Raja Rishis) <small>The choice to live by an ideal<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There may be philosophical quarrels about the ideas that the great role model leaders of society \u00a0like Abraham Lincoln, stood for. But never about the human beings involved \u2013 they were men and women of character. Whether they succeeded or failed doesn\u2019t matter. They were human beings who could give their all for an ideal they pursued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, to live a great life, you live for an ideal. Live the life, and both principle and precept follow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reality is living. Reality is not a static thing. Reality changes from morning to evening \u2013 markets shift, people shift, meetings shift, glaciers shift\u2026 but what has not shifted is your purpose. Your sense of dedication to an ideal. Your choice to walk the journey to truth, whatever be the cost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is such choices that create role-model leaders in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to live a great life, you live for an ideal. Live the life, and both principle and precept follow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773"}],"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=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}