{"id":1421,"date":"2007-04-06T16:07:21","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2007-04-06T16:07:21","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T21:07:21","slug":"the-measure-of-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"The measure of a man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amused by popular culture and what it says men should do and how they should act. When the world was full of people trying to be Alan Alda, I just thought, what the hell are these assholes thinking?<\/p>\n<p>The measure of a man is something all of us (who are men) understand. <\/p>\n<p>The measure of a man is not how hard you work out or how big your muscles become.<br \/>\nThe measure of a man is not the firearms you own, nor even how well you can shoot them.<br \/>\nThe measure of a man is not what kind of car you drive, nor how well you drive it.<br \/>\nThe mesaure of a man is not your job, nor your education, nor your blog, or your cable subscription. <\/p>\n<p>The measure of a man is who you are, inside. WHat you do to improve your world, the life of those around you. Having found, as Joseph Addison said, &#8220;Something to do, something to love, and something to hope for&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amused by popular culture and what it says men should do and how they should act. When the world was full of people trying to be Alan Alda, I just thought, what the hell are these assholes thinking? The measure of a man is something all of us (who are men) understand. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}