{"id":9912,"date":"2012-08-23T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=9912"},"modified":"2012-10-11T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T12:38:13","slug":"when-character-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/when-character-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"When Character Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"President<\/a>\"Creative<\/a> Roger H. Goun<\/a> via Compfight<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

<\/small>Once there was a President<\/a> who liked to get freaky with one of his interns…<\/p>\n

Opinions splitered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some said, “It doesn’t matter that he’s fooling around, as long as he does the job of the people.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Others said, “Character counts!”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anybody remember this?<\/em><\/p>\n

Integrity and (good) character build trust. It’s hard to earn, and easily broken. Fragile.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But, character is also not limited to a few actions or experiences, or even mistakes. It’s built through the many words and deeds in the course of years, and eventually a lifetime. It isn’t all-or-nothing. Character is best understood a trackable pattern that holds certain qualities and in-balance weighs out as good and mature or poor and wanting.<\/p>\n

It’s not so easy to compartmentalize what areas should be a matter of great importance regarding good character, and what areas can be loosey-goosey. The lie is that you can do whatever you want, and if your intentions<\/em> are good, than you get a pass.<\/p>\n

In general, good character must saturate the whole of a person, even if they may slip up sometimes.<\/p>\n

So, when does character count, to you?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In general, good character must saturate the whole of a person, even if they may slip up sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[619,5946,5944,1790,5945,5943,3195],"class_list":["post-9912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-character","tag-character-counts","tag-clinton","tag-integrity","tag-intern","tag-president","tag-spiritual-formation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9914,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9912\/revisions\/9914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}