{"id":90,"date":"2006-10-15T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=90"},"modified":"2006-10-15T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T13:37:04","slug":"risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"normaltext\"><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><a onfocus=\"this.blur()\" onclick=\"ps_imagemanager_popup(this.href,'1656528-thumb.jpg','125','116');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1656528-thumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"1656528-thumb.jpg\" height=\"89\" alt=\"1656528-thumb.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/.thumbs\/.1656528-thumb.jpg\" width=\"96\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.<br \/>\nTo weep is to risk appearing sentimental.<br \/>\nTo reach out for another is to risk involvement.<br \/>\nTo expose feelings is to risk rejection.<br \/>\nTo place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.<br \/>\nTo love is to risk not being loved in return.<br \/>\nTo go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.<br \/>\nBut risks must be taken...<br \/>\nbecause the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.<br \/>\nThe person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.<br \/>\nHe may avoid suffering and sorrow,<br \/>\nbut he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.<br \/>\nChained by his certitudes, he is a slave.<br \/>\nHe has forfeited his freedom.<br \/>\nOnly a person who takes risks is free.<\/font><\/span><span class=\"normaltext\"><\/p>\n<p \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk rejection. To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To go forward <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/?p=90\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"risk\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wisdom-quotes","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter.ccreadbible.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}