{"id":1930,"date":"2013-04-10T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:27:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:27:56","slug":"give-it-or-leave-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=1930","title":{"rendered":"GIVE IT &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; OR LEAVE IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t give it now, you will leave it all soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Most people have it backwards:<\/p>\n<p>Leave a lot of loot.\u00a0 Pile it up, stash it away, save it for someday&#8212;and die.\u00a0 Then who gets it?\u00a0 And what does it do to them?<\/p>\n<p>Leave a lot of loot,<\/p>\n<p>OR<\/p>\n<p>Leave a legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy is not measured in dollars or houses or land.\u00a0 It is Character&#8212;what&#8217;s there before and what&#8217;s left after all the rest is stripped away.<\/p>\n<p>Legacy is what people would say you did for them when no one knew.<\/p>\n<p>Give it all now, because you will leave it all soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don&#8217;t give it now, you will leave it all soon enough. Most people have it backwards: Leave a lot of loot.\u00a0 Pile it up, stash it away, save it for someday&#8212;and die.\u00a0 Then who gets it?\u00a0 And what does it do to them? Leave a lot of loot, OR Leave a legacy. Legacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}