{"id":1469,"date":"2010-08-08T01:17:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:46:35","slug":"defining-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Defining Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard that the &#8220;world&#8217;s most interesting man&#8221;\u009d is a guy known for recent beer commercials.\u00a0 Must not be a very interesting world.\u00a0 I am blessed to know some very interesting people so I don&#8217;t believe the pronouncement.\u00a0 In fact this pronouncement reminds me of a comment from C. S. Lewis in a different setting- when someone says something like this, why would you listen to anything else they say?<\/p>\n<p>Really, this is just a reminder not to live our lives for the recognition of this world.\u00a0 If this is what they praise, why pursue their praise?\u00a0 Our culture has lost its ability to recognize, much less define, greatness.\u00a0 Our culture is blind to true greatness.\u00a0 You would not ask a blind man to tell you if your socks match.\u00a0 You ought not ask the culture to tell you if what you are doing with your life is significant.<\/p>\n<p>They call pigmys giants, and then when told of real giants they refuse to believe they exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard that the &#8220;world&#8217;s most interesting man&#8221;\u009d is a guy known for recent beer commercials.\u00a0 Must not be a very interesting world.\u00a0 I am blessed to know some very interesting people so I don&#8217;t believe the pronouncement.\u00a0 In fact this pronouncement reminds me of a comment from C. S. Lewis in a different &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Defining Greatness&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}