{"id":396,"date":"2010-04-12T07:44:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/doing-the-right-thing\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:44:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:44:50","slug":"doing-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/doing-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing The Right Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef0133eca1370c970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef01347fd1283f970c-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mandela Prison Cell\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c78f953ef01347fd1283f970c \" height=\"119\" src=\"http:\/\/epicliving.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c78f953ef01347fd1283f970c-500wi\" style=\"WIDTH: 203px; HEIGHT: 119px\" width=\"143\" \/><\/a>&#0160;<br \/>&#0160;&#0160;<br \/> I read once that Nelson Mandela could have been released from that South African prison a lot earlier, if he would have sworn not to speak out about the evils of apartiheid once released.<\/p>\n<p>Got me thinking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Doing the right thing was never meant to be easy because of the following:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Greatness only allows those who can do the right thing to enter.<\/li>\n<li>If it were easy, then&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Like the fields, tilling is essential and it hurts.<\/li>\n<li>It needs to be built, and building implies pain.<\/li>\n<li>Life and order depend on it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What would you add to the list?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;&#0160;&#0160; I read once that Nelson Mandela could have been released from that South African prison a lot earlier, if he would have sworn not to speak out about the evils of apartiheid once released. Got me thinking&#8230; Doing the right thing was never meant to be easy because of the following: Greatness only allows&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,122,5,123],"tags":[22,336,177,1386,119,1387,120],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-commentary","category-career-2","category-entrepreneur-advice","category-leadership-development","tag-business","tag-leadership","tag-management-2","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-self-help","tag-social-entrepreneurism","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epicliving.com\/epic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}