{"id":2555,"date":"2020-04-24T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2020-04-24T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:23:36","slug":"george-washington-carvers-eight-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"George Washington Carver&#8217;s Eight Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2026it is needless for me to keep saying, I hope, except for emphasis, that each one of my children will rise to the full height of your possibilities, which means the possession of these eight cardinal virtues which constitutes a lady or gentleman.<\/p>\n<p>1st. Be clean both inside and out.<br \/>\n2nd. Neither look up to the rich or down on the poor.<br \/>\n3rd. Lose, if need be, without squealing.<br \/>\n4th. Win without bragging.<br \/>\n5th. Always be considerate of women, children, and older people.<br \/>\n6th. Be too brave to lie.<br \/>\n7th. Be too generous to cheat.<br \/>\n8th. Take your share of the world and let others take theirs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gwca\/learn\/education\/upload\/Charactor%20Education%20Book%20Grade%202-4.pdf\">Source<\/a>, page 24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026it is needless for me to keep saying, I hope, except for emphasis, that each one of my children will rise to the full height of your possibilities, which means the possession of these eight cardinal virtues which constitutes a lady or gentleman. 1st. Be clean both inside and out. 2nd. Neither look up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;George Washington Carver&#8217;s Eight Virtues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[125],"tags":[558,46,559],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-george-washington-carver","tag-quotes","tag-virtues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Fd","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2556,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}