{"id":43,"date":"2019-02-06T10:09:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/?p=43"},"modified":"2020-08-19T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:53:21","slug":"dads-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/2019\/02\/06\/dads-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dad’s Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This was a poem that we found among my dads stuff as we were sorting things after he died. My brother Mike had it posted up at Dad’s funeral. I thought that it was a very meaningful set of thoughts. Something that everybody could use to live by, and I can see that my Dad believed it.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\nI want to live with myself & so
\n I want to be fit for myself to know.
\n I want to be able as days go by
\n Always to look myself in the eye.
\n I don’t want to stand with the setting sun
\n Hating myself for the things I’ve done.
\n I don’t want to heap my closet shelf
\n With lots of secrets of myself
\n And fool myself as I come and go
\n Into thinking nobody else will know
\n The kind of guy I really am.\n<\/p>

\n I don’t want to cover myself with shame.
\n I want to stand with my head erect;
\n I want to earn the world’s respect.
\n And in the struggle for fame and wealth –
\n I want to be able to like myself.
\n I can never hide myself from me
\n I see what others never know
\n I can never fool myself and so
\n Whatever happens I want to be
\n Self-respecting and conscience free.\n

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— Edgar A Guest —<\/b><\/center>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was a poem that we found among my dads stuff as we were sorting things after he died. My brother Mike had it posted up at Dad’s funeral. I thought that it was a very meaningful set of thoughts. Something that everybody could use to live by, and I can see that my Dad … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrtisworks.com\/mythoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}