{"id":857,"date":"2011-07-16T07:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wordsofwisdom\/?p=857"},"modified":"2011-07-16T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T12:04:09","slug":"standing-for-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wordsofwisdom\/standing-for-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing for Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many of us have heard the maxim:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t stand for something, you will fall for anything.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What this maxim does is point us towards the importance of values.<\/p>\n<p>But whose values?\u00a0 Which ones?<\/p>\n<p>Does those values come from within me, our outside of me?\u00a0 Or from beyond me?<\/p>\n<p>For example. Is it the values imposed by law?\u00a0 Those can be shifting sands.\u00a0 What was legal yesterday, may become illegal today.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? # #<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-858\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-858\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wordsofwisdom\/?attachment_id=858\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-858\" title=\"1247049723_c54dbb2677 Falling Star photo courtesy of ToastyKen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/wordsofwisdom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1247049723_c54dbb2677-Falling-Star-photo-courtesy-of-ToastyKen.jpg\" alt=\"Falling star\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falling Star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tim Connor is on hiatus.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This post by L. A. &#8216;Tony&#8217; Kovach<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/latonykovach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us have heard the maxim: &#8220;If you don&#8217;t stand for something, you will fall for anything.&#8221; What this maxim does is point us towards the importance of values. But whose values?\u00a0 Which ones? Does those values come from within me, our outside of me?\u00a0 Or from beyond me? For example. 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